Notes
1
Happiness, the effect of virtue, is the mark which God has set up for us to aim at. Our missing it is no work of His; nor so properly anything real, as a mere negative and failure of our own.
2
Euphrates was a philosopher of Syria, whose character is described, with the highest encomiums, by Pliny the Younger, Letters I. 10.
3
The two inimical sons of Oedipus, who killed each other in battle.—Ed.
4
This refers to an anecdote given in full by Simplicius, in his commentary on this passage, of a man assaulted and killed on his way to consult the oracle, while his companion, deserting him, took refuge in the temple till cast out by the Deity.—Tr.
5
Reference is to Zeno of Cyprus (335-263 B.C.), the founder of the Stoic school.—Ed.