The Works of Horace, With English Notes, Critical And Explanatory
The Works of Horace, With English Notes, Critical And Explanatory
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The Stoics directly inculcated the propriety of their wise man's exerting his best endeavours for the general welfare of those around liim, and the common good of mankind. Attention to civil, or public a^rs would be a necessary consequence of this rule. — 18. Jiunc in •Aristippi furtim, &c. ^ Now I slide bacK insensibly into tbe precepts of Aristippus." AristippuSp the founder of the Cyrenaic sect, made the summum bonum consist in pleasure. Consult note on Sat. 2. 2. 99. 21 — ^24. 21. Opus debe...ntibus. The allusion is a general one to all who owe the performance of any daily task or labour, eiuer for actual hire, or from situation and circumstances. — Utpiger anmis pupiUiSf &c.'"As the year moves slowly to minors, whom tbe strict watchfulness of mothers re- strains." Since minors were not under the guardianship of their motbers, the reference here must of course be to that watchful care which a parent exercises over her young ofispring, in restraining them from the paths oi dissipation, and teaching them the lessons of frugality and virtue.
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