[223] As in the story in "Gil Blas" of the person who,
after eating a ragout of rabbit, was told it was a
ragout of cat.--Book X. chapter xii.

[224] As to Amoebeus, see Athenaeus, p. 623. D.

[225] "Iliad," xvi. 167.

[226] Generally speaking [Greek: ethos] is the habit,
[Greek: ethos] the moral character generated by habit.
The former is Aristotle's [Greek: energeia], the latter
his [Greek: hexis].

[227] I have adopted, it will be seen, the suggestion of
Wyttenbach, "[Greek: to logismo] mutandum videtur in
[Greek: ton chalinon]."

[228] Sophocles, "Oedipus Tyrannus," 4, 5. Quoted by our
author again "On Abundance of Friends," Sec. vi.

[229] Reading with "Reiske," [Greek: exagetai pros to
epithymein ta aischra].

[230] In the "Chrysippus" of Euripides, Fragm.

[231] Compare Romans viii. 19.

[232] "Odyssey," xii. 168, 169.

[233] This line is from Simonides, and is quoted again
in "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," Sec.
xiv.

[234] "Iliad," vii. 93.

[235] Reading with Reiske, [Greek: eis duo].

[236] Reading [Greek: etei] with Reiske and Wyttenbach.

[237] Euripides, "Hippolytus" 385, 386.

[238] Reading with Reiske [Greek: pathesi] for [Greek:
pleiosi].

[239] See "Iliad," x. 374, sq.

[240] "Iliad," xi. 547.

[241] "De Anaxarchi supplicio nota res. v. Menage ad
Diog. Laeert. 9, 59. De Magae, reguli Cyrenarum, adversus
Philemonem lenitate v. De Cohibenda Ira, Sec.
ix."--_Reiske._

[242] "Celebres fuere quondam Chrysippi sex libri
[Greek: peri tes kata tas lezeis anomalias], in quibus
auctore Varrone, _propositum habuit ostendere, similes
res dissimilibus verbis et similibus dissimiles esse
notatas vocabulis_. v. Menage ad Diog. Laeert. 7,
192."--_Reiske._

[243] Compare "On Contentedness of Mind," Sec. xiii.

[244] Reading with _Reiske_, [Greek: aporrezeien].

[245] "Iliad," xiii. 284, 285.

[246] "Iliad," xv. 262.

[247] "Iliad," v. 185.

[248] Compare "That Virtue may be Taught," Sec. ii.

HOW ONE MAY BE AWARE OF ONE'S
PROGRESS IN VIRTUE.

Sec. I. What amount of argument, Sossius Senecio, will make a man know that
he is improving in respect to virtue, if his advances in it do not
bring about some diminution in folly, but vice, weighing equally with
all his good intention