Note 149 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Consolatio ad Apollonium, 102 A.—“He was a very sage and virtuous youth, conspicuous for the reverence which he paid to the gods, to his parents, and to his friends.” This is nearly the old Hellenic ideal as expressed, e.g., in the lines from the “Antiope” of Euripides, preserved by Stobæus, “On Virtue”—
“There be three virtues for thy practice, child: Honour the gods, revere thy loving parents, Respect the laws of Greece.”