¹⁹ Virgil, Aen. 7, 338.

²⁰ Virgil, Aen. 4. 492, 493.

²¹ Virgil, Ec. 8. 99.

²² Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxviii. 2) and others quote the law as running: Qui fruges incantasit, qui malum carmen incantasit...neu alienam segetem pelexeris.

²³ Before Claudius, the prefect of Africa, a heathen.

²⁴ Another reading, whom they could not know, though near to themselves.

²⁵ These quotations are from a dialogue between Hermes and Aesculapius, which is said to have been translated into Latin by Apuleius.

²⁶ Rom. i. 21.

²⁷ Jer. xvi. 10.

²⁸ Zech. xiii. 2.

²⁹ Isa. xix. 1.

³⁰ Matt. xvi. 16.

³¹ Matt. viii. 29.

³² Ps. xcvi. 1.

³³ Ps. cxv. 5, etc.

³⁴ 1 Cor. x. 19, 20.

³⁵ Ps. xcvi. 1-5.

³⁶ Jer. xvi. 20.

³⁷ Ornamenta memoriarum.

³⁸ Comp. The Confessions, vi. 2.

¹ See Plutarch, on the Cessation of Oracles.

² The De Deo Socratis.

³ De Fin. iii. 20; Tusc. Disp. iii. 4.

⁴ The distinction between bona and commoda is thus given by Seneca (Ep. 87, ad fin.): Commodum est quod plus ususest quam rnolestioe; bonum sinecrum debet esse et ab omni parte innoxium.

⁵ Book xix. ch. 1.

⁶ See Diog. Laert. ii. 71.

⁷ Virgil, Aen. iv. 449.

⁸ Seneca, De Clem. ii. 4 and 5.

⁹ Pro. Lig. c. 12.

¹⁰ De Oratore, i 11, 47.

¹¹ De Deo Soc.

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