The Commentaries on the Timaeus of Plato — trans. Thomas Taylor

p. 473

lumr, til iimiiciiir, and llrmiies in thr j Tactic 1 lllc

Aft* riv.ml", i i! eotiiii i nting mi what I’lato siysof 1 fir in an i.i Iroin tlic Mm*'', m. “ tl at it adorns the 111tii>Hi- 'lei d* nl tin- am u nis," lit rmr.is ol serve',“ that the inward rnrr_• v m thr smil of ll c poetic in. him, ly a| 111> ii 1 (C it'-cll In '•uprrinr am! intelligible natures, im¬ parts t« Mil'tiril u.iir iiaturrs harmony ami order; hut tliftt tin- rslrrn.tl divinely inspired purlrv celebrates thr ilrnli nl the anc rut*, ami instructs hntli its con- Irnlpur.lilts iml posterity, rxirndtng its cm rgies carry ulit it " lint l lato »ays, •• that hr who without th« ilivi.’rly-inspirr il mania ril' thr Musrs, expects to hc- < nine i ilitmr p. rt, will hy thus I.u.ey mi;, become him i ll in'l'rrlrrl ; and Ins | airy wall hr vanq nshrd »i d contrail d hy thr purtry which is thr progeny of in mu," llrrinr is ad l», “ 1 or w I it siimhtnilr is there between thr pot try i l Clui rilus and t alltmarhus, and that nl Ilomrr anti I’indar f l or the divinely-inspired ports, as hi nip lillrd (ruin the Muses, alw ays invoke tin in, and estci d to the-in all tint they ' ly." I u a fuller, and most admirable act mint of the poetic mama, and of the dill rent spines ol poetry hy 1‘rt chi-, see the Notes on the lOlh hook or tlic Krpuhhe, in my translation of I’l.lto, and uiso the Inlrodnetion to ;ny translation ol the llhcloiit. Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

Front what i- 1 ere jaici by Ilermras about enthu¬ siasm, the intelligent reader w nl casi y *re that none ol the Human ( oris v- ho-e work' have been trans¬ mitted tin', p.sscssed that "In h is primarily, projieilv, ami truly enthusiasm, or th it highest -'pecirs of it,in winch (Vo'ie ol the soul i-illuminated by adivine n ituic, ami though traus- r ndi nt similitude, is united mu. As to Virgil, indeed, the prince of these ports, though lie invokes the Mi sc in me In ginning ol the ■ 1111 in I, yrt his invoc ition ol her is but a partial and secondary thing. 1 > r I c only c ills r u her to unf -Id to him the c.io-rs that iiivofvc d a man of such n markable pie's as Kite s. in so many mi'lorlunes ;

.Mns i, nuln causas hi- mora, **c. and contidii g in Ins nw n g< uni', hr begins hi* poeru without Soliciting 'llpr Hull in'| ir.lllon,

Anna, viruinq-.e caiio, &C

To which r ay lu* add. I t it this placing htmjrlf l cf,,re tl e Muse, rcscmblr* llic no cf mein rex of Wolsclry. On the contrary, chvim ly-in'pirrd poet*, a* llrrmca- well observes, knot k, a* it were, at »hr gate* of the Muses, and thus being Idled from thence cirl.um, r frwrri pu> t Moi/<toj —

And,

A r,d.

Tor being

Mirer aeihe tea —•

AcSpa M ct cmwc Moc-era— alsvays cilended to them, they dispose the whole of what they alter.* ards say, a* derive d from their inspiring influence. With an arrogance, too, peculiar to the Homan', who as a certain Grit k poitsays,* weT« a people

Tor being

Mirer aeihe tea —•

AcSpa M ct cmwc Moc-era— alsvays cilended to them, they dispose the whole of what they alter.* ards say, a* derive d from their inspiring influence. With an arrogance, too, peculiar to the Homan', who as a certain Grit k poitsays,* weT« a people

“ Hey* ml measure proud,"

he associate s hini'i If, m los i n Fatigue, with ti e Muses, as their rriu.il;

■Sicili !rs Musa , p mill map ra Cana mis ; wl ich reminds mr ol what Sun. in is rrlatis i f Cali¬ gula, that hr would plan* looist ll I ri»t< n the staluc ■ ol Ca'lor ami I’ulhii,aMl triiilr r pn\a'*lv with Jupiter C'apituhmi*, laiirymg that le- was u.imi.iir with, and ol iqii.il dignity with these- dull 1 io Ai ll as to the poc t« that base Intel since the la 1 ol the It -m*n empire, it would he ridiculous to suppose that they possessed tins highest riilhusi ism, as they did not believe in ll t lUstrntr ol the 'ooiccs Iroin whence it is alone gc mniiely derived.

I'.til. A< 1'irnt ie, Jupiter m If, . Is the (iodi,n Ve»

preude oirr the n.U’uAme t- rilru.ii/i/, to the Grrcun war.—

I lie lullowmg I e iiitilu! < t[ lai alum ol the rceoiidite meaning , I the I'rojiii war in lh uicr, is given ly llrrinr is m Ins be liolia un the l’ha Ini' ol I’l tlo :

“■ Hy Him wc must understand the gc- crated and material place, which is so denominated Iroin mud and flutter (voga TTJC »Aw «ai rrj» eAlj*'), and III w-huli there are war and ‘edition. Hut the Trojans arc material form*, and all the lives winch subsist about bodies. Hence also the 1 rojans are called prnume {ifa-yemt). F r all tlic lives winch subsist about bodies ar.d irra¬ tional’ souls, arc I ivoiiralne and alt- nuse to tlieir pro¬ per matter. On the rontrary, the Greeks are rational s -ni', ci.in ng frt ni Grrere, i. c. In in the intelligible into milter. Hence the Gretks are railed /ur<ig.ien (v'T'c-Jii 1 , and ‘ anotii'Ii the Trojan*, as bring ol a su- | c rmr ur lor Hut they tight w ith car h other about the image 0 f Helen, as the poet ‘ays [about tl e image of Kiu-as],

Around the phar.tc m, Grcrks inel Trojans light * Helen signifying intr lligihle beauty, bring a certain rri< el *\»nu) m o\xra , itlrac tmg to H-ell ii.telle cl. An clllux tin rrli.re, ol this i nt* lligit lc he .mis is imparted to in itter thr- ugh Y< mis ; and about this rl’iux ol beauty the Greeks light with the ir.jans [i r i ill nal with irrational lives'] And those indeed, V it oppose and vanquish matter, return to the mu legible, which is ll r if true r.iunlrs , I lit tin sc » ho tin not, as i- tin case wuli the multitude, arr hound to malt* r As thr te- (i>rr, the piriplul in the 10th ho-ck t.l it.r Urpohlir,

{ revi .Italy in the de cent of sc.id*, a m.i t.ces t . tl.ein (low they may rt turn [tu tin li pristi c It In its,] ae cunling to period* ol a timil'alid and tin iho-is.iml sears; thus hHo ( alt 1 1 as predicts to the (>r< ■ l* let ir rtltirn in ten year*, tl.e number tm being a symbol of a pi Meet peritd. And as ill the lives ol so- !-, some .ire elevated through | lulo'ophy, others through the amatory art.

* The German editor of ll e*e Scholia, instead of i rparr». v , which is the true reading in li i* place, and which he found in the Manus ripi, absurdly substitutes (or it ».*-*<**>, as if Hercules was a pugili't >e< my lianslauon of the Dissertation ol Maximus Tyrius, On the 1 ’rarlic and llieortlic Die.

* \’id. tliynipiod-.r. m Aiistot. Meteor

1 For oj-aAoyoi ifv\ai lu re, it is Dcccs'ary to road oAcvyoc cj-vx<u.

* Iliad V. v. Ol.

' I'oiilnrniahlv to ll is, (’rot his in the fragment' « fhi* Coninieiilane*, On the Kcpublu ol I’ alo say i, “ that ail |he beauty snhsiiting alaiut generation Irom tiie fal.rieationo( thing*, issignilicd hy Helen , about which there is a perpetual battle ol souls, tdi the more intellectual having vanquished the more irrational forms ofhfc, return to the place Iroin whence they originally came/’ For the beauty which is in the realms of gincration, is an efTiui ci intelligible beauty

Tm PUt. Vou II-

p. 474

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

• nd other* through the rural and warlike discipline*; kj with rrspect «u the (l*eek», tome act with rcrliliulc through prudent e, but u hers lliruugh w ar or luvr, ami thnr inuru is ditlercnt (according tu their ddleicnt pursuits].”

P 131 . The Plutonic hypotheiet ulou. the forth.

Siee more on this inieicsliiig Mihjctt iri ilu* notes to my translation of the I'hado and Gut 1.19 ot Plato.

P 175 . It 11 reyuiti/e that uethoull knot, 1 ouu thing mamfcit confer mna ^ raper.

Sit ail addin nal treasury ofdivinely liiniiiiuiis con¬ ceptions on this sulject, truru lamhliclms, liar cits and S mplaiiis, in tht i.oits to my tr.uisL.Muii of the Second Alcihi.tdes o* Plato; whiili, it the nailer has net my Pi ito 111 Ins posse viini, ht iiijv also tinil in the -Additional Nutt' to ins trails]attou of .Maximus lyrius, an 1 in the New Mt.i this Magi/iuc.

P. ‘101. I'he rotate which it without ft pure f Ac. u uittu pie 111 of h ii f A

Prut lus aiIndex litre to the t Pi wing passage In the Ph.tdriisol I',ii i “ d’hi xupt n I 'rsiial | lat t li is i.ot yet him irbt. laird Ivan) it our | < l , nor wpi it