1. These sentiments are comparable to the more elaborate Dream of Scipio in Cicero’s work On the State (p. 26).

1. The last day of Socrates’ life is described in Plato’s Phaedo.

2. In The Education of Cyrus.

1. Publius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (see p. 242).

1. It was not Pelias but his half-brother Aeson whom Medea was said to have restored to youth by cutting him up and boiling him in a cauldron.

1. The Epicureans.