| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: easy for
the heroes to pass over.
2 The Darter penetrated, though in trouble, thrice-seven close-pressed
ridges of the mountains.
Neither might God nor mortal man accomplish what the Strong
Hero
wrought in full-grown vigour.
3 The mightiest force is Indra's bolt of iron when firmly grasped
in
both the arms of Indra.
His head and mouth have powers that pass all others, and all
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: Plato (compare Phaedo; Symp.), as well as Xenophon (Memor.), he was
punctual in the performance of the least religious duties; and he must have
believed in his own oracular sign, of which he seemed to have an internal
witness. But the existence of Apollo or Zeus, or the other gods whom the
State approves, would have appeared to him both uncertain and unimportant
in comparison of the duty of self-examination, and of those principles of
truth and right which he deemed to be the foundation of religion. (Compare
Phaedr.; Euthyph.; Republic.)
The second question, whether Plato meant to represent Socrates as braving
or irritating his judges, must also be answered in the negative. His
irony, his superiority, his audacity, 'regarding not the person of man,'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: success of the above suggestions will depend doubtless on the
consenting will of Heaven.[10]
[4] "Entered on an era of prestige with the incorporation of," after
Leuctra, 371 B.C., when the force was at its worst. See "Hell."
VI. iv. 10.
[5] Or, "money will be forthcoming for them." Cf. Lys. "Against
Philon," xxxi. 15; Martin, op. cit. 319.
[6] Cf. "Hell." III. iv. 15; "Ages." i. 23. Courier brackets this
sentence [{oti . . . ippeuein}] as a gloss; Martin, p. 323,
emends.
[7] As to the legal exemption of orphans Schneid. cf. Dem. "Symm."
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