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" " " An " The Delay of the Deity seems to have regarded both the soul and the body as eternal and uncreated, but the latter without form until it was united with the soul. Or we may put the case otherwise by saying that the soul, upon entering into a conscious existence, shapes the hitherto formless body into an abode for itself. He also holds that the soul consists of two parts: The one part seeks after truth and has an affection for the beautiful: the other subject to the passions and under the dominion of error. For which reason," the author here assumes that the words s0o$ and YjOos are from the same root. The former means, use and wont; the latter was originally applied! to the haunts or abodes of animals; then the manners, habits, and dispositions of men. Aristotle says, r t ff fjfl .xij ^ e0ou$ xeptybeTat, is oBev xa>. T0ovofj.a ff%i)xe [itxpov -zfux/Jvov a/ro ron ijOous. (Ethical is from e0o?, for which reason the word differs but slightly from rjffos.) Plutarch himself says that custom is second nature. It is easy to trace the connection between a man s acts and the psychical forces, the character, that produces them. 8. ill-omened deed." It was a prevalent belief in antiquity that misfortunes fell upon those who were concerned in disturbing a swallow s nest. 10. Near the end. The Greeks ventured to consult oracles of the dead only on rare and extraodinary occasions. They probably borrowed the custom from the East. 11. The story of Glaucus is told at length by Herodotus in the third book of his history and is often alluded toby later writers. The ethical import of the anecdote is far=reaching. 17. Gardens of Adonis." Shakespeare probably had these in mind when he wrote (King Henry VI. Part 1, scene sixth): Thy promises are like Adonis gardens, That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next." At Taenarus, the most southern point of the Peloponnesus, there was believed to bean entrance to the lower world. 22. "None more dreaded by his enemies." To return good for good and evil for evil was a fundamental article of Greek ethics. It is more than once alluded to in the Anabasis, and is found in nearly all Greek writers. Socrates, however, takes a firm stand against the principle and maintains that whatever 216
The Delay of the Deity is intrinsically wrong can never under any circumstances be come right. "An inclination toward the earth." The author here as sumes that ftveff. ?. procreation, beginning, is both in fact and etymologically. connected with veDrrr? ert an inclination ?%> or tendency toward the earth. It need hardly bo said that his idea is pure fancy. This eruption of Vesuvius, as is well known, took place in the year 79, Decaearchea or Puteoli was one of the cities destroyed together with Herculaneum, Pompei and others. Vespasian was one of the few Roman emperors, who, up to his time, died a natural death. What is meant by a Pindaric viper is not known. Plutarch is evidently of the opinion that its young gnaw their way out of the mother s womb instead of being born in the natural way, and the allusion to Nero s treatment of his mother is plain. Nero s love for music and his proficiency in the musical art are evidently held up to ridicule in this passage. 217
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