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Product description This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt:...iii. 31: "Ut Prometheus ille Aeschyli cui cum dictum esset. 'Atqui, Prometheu, te hoc tenere exislumo Mederi posse rationem iracundiae' Respondit, 'Siquidem qui tempestivam medicinam admovens Non ad gravescens volnus illidat manus.'" 378. op-yfjs voo-ovcrqs, 'a disordered temper.' Many editors read /vxris, which is given by PIutarch (Cons. ad Apoll. 102 B) and Eustathius (696 and 1005) in their quotations of the line. On the other hand Stobaeus (Flor. xx. 13) quotes bpyijs paralas cMv atrioi (leg. larpoi) byoi. Cicero's translation does not help us, as iracundiae might be a free rendering of either word. Weoklein follows Hermann in reading /vxris on the ground that 'bprpj voaovaa. non erit nimia et modum excedens ira intelligenda, sed quae non impleat modum nec possit recle ce.nse.ri ira esse.' This criticism would be valid, if it were necessary to understand bpyJi as 'anger'; but the word is often used in a neutral sense, like our 'temper'; e.g. Eur. Med. 121. bpyijs would be liable to suffer from misquotation, and give place to the more obvious /vxns. Moreover it is specially suitable here, as being connected with bpydw, which has a meaning similar to aippiyaw, 380. For the metaphor, cf. Milt. Sams. Agon.: "Meanwhile be calm, And healing words from these thy friends admit." And again: "Apt words have power to 'suage The tumours of a troubled mind, And are as balm to festered wounds." 379. y« does not here express assent, as often, in which case it would be placed earlier in the sentence, but lays emphasis on iv Kaipif: "(True,) if one soften the heart in season." icfap, the (angry) heart; see on 245. 380. o-pi/yoivta, 'swollen,' here a medical term. The metaphor is from an ulcer, which yields to treatment by ge...