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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. 1917 Excerpt:...in Galen also. He says he is going to tell how one can learn of his faults, "encouraging him who is familiar with this inscription and is feeling it incumbent Catullus 22, 15-21. 21 The Satires of Persius p. 141. 22 vv. 23-24. 23 Certain MSS. have "Tecum habita ut noris".... 24 Persius, with trans, and com. by Connington, ed. by Nettleship. (3rd ed. revised) p. 79. 26 Page 147. CHAPTER VII TNOei ZATTON As Know You Are Human And Mortal In Pindar's Third Pythian Ode we find expressed one of the commonplaces of Greek thought in the verses:1 %pr) To. kot.Kora irap Saifioviav naarevkpev, Ovoltois ippaaiv, yvbvra T6 irap iroSbs, oIas elfilv alaas. The scholiast upon the passage says:" This is similar to the yv&di aavrov of Chilon, meaning that we are by nature mortal."2 But it is not at all likely that Pindar had the apophthegm in mind here, for it is not until the days of Menander that the two are definitely brought together. The injunction to think mortal thoughts, however,--to recognize our human limitations and know that we must die--is as old as Archilochus, who says: yiyvwcrKe 5' olos pixr/ios avdpwirovs ex«t-3 And the tragic and comic poets--yes, and the prose writers too--reiterate the theme. Sometimes they emphasize the thought that we are only human beings, subject to human vicissitudes, and so must not think too highly of our human powers; sometimes they dwell upon the thought that death awaits us; and again, as in the above passage from Pindar, the two ideas are both expressed. They are but two shades of the same conception, really, and they are never far apart. Sophocles has the first shade of meaning chiefly in mind when he says that Ajax brought his sufferings upon himself, ob Kar' avdpunrov tppovSiv. 1 in, 59-60....