28 



such things as are proper, and when it is proper* ; 

 and likewise consider how they ought to be dis- 

 posed when they copulate with each other, in order 

 that the offspring may not be a casual production ; 

 but that men should pay no attention to their 

 progeny, but should beget them casually; and when 

 begotten, should neglect both their nutriment and 

 their education : for these being disregarded, the 

 causes of all vice and depravity are produced, 

 since those that are thus born will resemble cattle, 

 and will be ignoble and vile. 



OCELLUS LUCANUS ON LAWS. 



A FRAGMENT PRESERVED BY STOB^US, ECLOG. PH\S. 

 LIB. I. CAP. 16. 



LIFE, connectedly contains in itself bodies ; but 

 of this, soul is the cause. Harmony comprehends, 

 connectedly, the world; but of this, God is the 

 cause. Concord binds together families and cities ; 

 and of this, law is the cause. Hence, there is a 



* In the original, us ^/, x/ t% uv 5/, xeu in $/, a mode of dic- 

 tion which frequently occurs in Aristotle, and from him in Pla- 

 tonic writers. 



