7
"Iliad," ix. 324. Quoted again in "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § 8.
8
"Odyssey," xx. 14, 15.
9
A theatre, that is, in which animals and birds and human beings should meet in common.
10
All that is said here about the milk, the menses, and the blood, I have been obliged somewhat to condense and paraphrase. The ancients sometimes speak more plainly than we can. Ever and anon one must pare down a phrase or word in translating an ancient author. It is inevitable. Verbum sat sapienti.
11
Ibid. xi. 269-271.
12
A fragment from Euripides, according to Xylander.