e to make it in shade and
obscurity."]

[Footnote 70: The names which follow are inappropriate examples of "fair
virtue's _silent_ train." The first on the list spent his days in
promulgating his philosophy, and they were all energetic public
characters who made a stir in the world. When Pope originated the
expression, he must have been thinking of the unobtrusive virtues of
private life, and he probably added the illustrations later without
observing the incongruity.]

[Footnote 71: Aristides, who for his great integrity was distinguished
by the appellation of the Just. When his countrymen would have banished
him by the ostracism, where it was the custom for every man to sign the
name of the person he voted to exile in an oyster-shell, a peasant, who
could not write, came to Aristides to do it for him, who readily signed
his own name.--POPE.]

[Footnote 72: Who, when he was about to drink the hemlock, charged his
son to forgive his enemies, and not to revenge his death on those
Athenians who had decreed it.--WARTON.

He was condemned to death B. C. 317, at the age of 85, on the charge of
treason to his country. Mistrusting the ability of Athens to maintain
its independence, he connived at the dominion of the Macedonian kings.
Many of those who admit his integrity contend that his policy was
mistaken and unpatriotic. His party regained the ascendancy after his
death, honoured his remains with a public funeral, and erected a statue
of brass to his memory.]

[Footnote 73: Very unpoetically designated. Agis might as well have been
left out, if all that could be said of him was that he was "not the last
of Spartan names."--BOWLES.

Agis, king of Sparta, was celebrated for his attempt to restore the
ancient Spartan regulations. Especially he was anxious to resume the
excess of land possessed by the rich and divide it among the poor. He
failed in his design, and was dethroned, and beheaded. At his execution
one of the officers of justice shed tears. "Lament me not," said Agis;
"I am happier than my murderers."]

[Footnote 74: In the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, Cato sided with
Pompey, and when the cause was lost, he stabbed himself in the bowels to
avoid being captured. He was found by his friends insensible, but alive,
and a physician began to sew up the wound. Cato recovered his
consciousness, pushed away the physician, tore open the wound, and
expired.]

[Footnote 75: A horrible spectre appeared to Brutu