Note 9 — Chapter XXVII · PARMENIDES.
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Aristophan. Nubes, 145-170-1490.
τί γὰρ μαθόντ’ ἐς τοὺς θεοὺς ὑβρίζετον, καὶ τῆς σελήνης ἐσκοπεῖσθε τὴν ἔδραν;
Compare Xenoph. Memor. i. 1, 11-13, iv. 7, 6-7; Plutarch, Perikles, 23; also the second chapter of the first Book of Macrobius, about the discredit which is supposed to be thrown upon grand and solemn subjects by a plain and naked exposition. “Inimicam esse naturæ nudam expositionem sui.”