use he had associat
himself with Tydeus, Capaneus and other impious commanders marching
to the siege of Thebe." ("Gillespie's Miscel. Quest.," p. 178.)
AEschylus makes Eteocles give the following description of the
character of Amphiaraus, and foretell his destiny.--("Septem cont
Thebas," ver. 597.)

"Nothing worse
In whate'er cause than impious fellowship,
Nothing of good is reap'd for when the field
Is sown with wrong the ripened fruit is death
So this seer
Of temper'd wisdom, of unsullied honour,
Just, good, and pious, and a mighty prophet,
In despite to his better judgment join'd
With men of impious daring, bent to tread
The long, irremeable way, with them
Shall, if high Jove assist us, be dragg'd down
To joint perdition."--_Potter_.

Regarded simply as a poetical fiction, the account which Statius has
given of the fate of Amphiaraus is particularly striking and
beautiful--(Thebald. lib. vii. ver. 815-823)--_Ed._]

385 ["A Hypothetical Proposition is one which asserts not absolutely,
but under an hypothesis indicated by a conjunction. An hypothetical
syllogism is one on which the reasoning depends on such a
proposition."--Whately's "Elements of Logic," p. 388.--_Ed._]

386 ["For he who gives life gives the things which are necessary to
life."--Cic. De Offic. lib. cap. 4.--_Ed._]

387 [The MS. in my possession which will be afterwards described has no
part of this third answer. In place of it I find the following
passage: "And though there had been disproportion of numbers betwixt
us and the enemy, yet we cannot but still say, it had been a way
much better beseeming the people of God, and in which there should
have been much more peace and consort, to have had to do our duty
with such a disproportion, than to have taken in the malignant party
for making it up."--_Ed._]

388 [Than with.--_Ed._]

389 [Dirge, or some such word is wanting here.--_Ed._]

390 [That is, put them in mind.--_Ed._]

391 [The remaining part of the Section is not contained in either of the
two preceding editions of the "Case of Conscience," but is taken
from a MS. in the handwriting of the period with the use of which I
have been favoured by my friend David Laing, Esq., Secretary to the
Bannatyne Club.