22 Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxviii. 2) and others quote the law as running: Qui fruges incantasit, qui malum carmen incantasit...neu alienam segetem pelexeris.
23 Before Claudius, the prefect of Africa, a heathen.
24 Another reading, whom they could not know, though near to themselves.
25 These quotations are from a dialogue between Hermes and Aesculapius, which is said to have been translated into Latin by Apuleius.
38 Comp. The Confessions, vi. 2.
1 See Plutarch, on the Cessation of Oracles.
3 De Fin. iii. 20; Tusc. Disp. iii. 4.
4 The distinction between bona and commoda is thus given by Seneca (Ep. 87, ad fin.): Commodum est quod plus ususest quam rnolestioe; bonum sinecrum debet esse et ab omni parte innoxium.