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CHAPTER XXXII. 

 Of Authority. 



AGAIN, Chilo the Lacedaemonian was of such great Reput- 

 ation among Men, that his Sayings were held for Oracles ; 

 and three Precepts of his were consecrated at Delphi, in 

 these Words : That each one should know himself: Set thy 

 Mind too much on Nothing: Debt and Law are always accom- 

 panied with Misery. Moreover, when he died for Joy, on 

 receiving Tidings that his Son was Conqueror at Olympia, 

 all Greece solemnised his Funeral. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

 Of a divine Spirit. 



AMONG Women, in the Sibyl 1 there was a divine Spirit, 

 and a certain very noble Companionship with celestial 

 Beings. Of Men, among the Greeks, Melampus; and among 

 the Romans, Martins. 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 

 Of Nasica. 



SCIPIO NASICA was judged once by the sworn Senate to 

 be the best Man from the Beginning of Time: but the same 

 Man is remarked to have twice suffered a Repulse by the 

 People in his white Robe. And to conclude, it was not per- 

 mitted him to die in his own Country; no more, by Hercules, 

 than it was that Socrates, pronounced the wisest Man by 

 Apollo, should die out of Bonds. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 

 Of Modesty. * 



SULPITIA, Daughter of Paterculus and Wife to Fulvius 

 Flaccus, by the Sentence in general of the Matrons was pro- 



1 The Sibyls will be referred to in the 34th book. Wern. Club. 

 * It was an ancient law, " Ut Matronis de via decederetur, nihil obscoeni 

 presentibus iis vel diceretur vel fieret, neve quis nudum se ab iis conspici 



