The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [49] Reading {katophere [stenen ek tou emprosthen]}. See Lenz ad loc.
pp. 23, 24. Pollux, v. 69.
[50] Reading {[lepton, periphere]}.
[51] {sugkola}, al. "compactly knit."
[52] Lit. {ou barutonon}, "not deep sounding" = {ou sarkodes}, Pollux,
ib.
[53] Reading {lagonas ugras lagaras ikanos}.
[54] {trikhona}, "the coat."
I say an animal so happily constructed must needs be strong and
pliant; the perfection of lightness and agility. If proof of this
lightness and agility be needed, here is a fact in illustration. When
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: him accosted?
[3] {to arkhein}. Cf. "Cyrop." passim.
[4] "A private person."
[5] Lit. "by like expenditure of power."
[6] {arkhomai soi}. Lit. "I'll begin you with quite commonplace
examples." Holden cf. Shakesp. "Merry Wives," i. 4. 97, "I'll do
you your master what good I can"; "Much Ado," ii. 3. 115, "She
will sit you." For the distinction between {paradeigmaton} =
examples and {upodeigmata} = suggestions see "Horsem." ii. 2.
Or again,[7] let us suppose that both should have occasion to
pronounce a panegyric. Whose compliments will carry farther, in the
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