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Book II Chapters 10–14

Chapter 10

What the philosopher should be like.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁵

Chapter 11

That one should revere the divine.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁶

Chapter 12

That the higher power helps the pious and just.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁷

Chapter 13

On divination, and how foreknowledge of future events is necessary for life.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁸

Chapter 14

That one should greatly value the company of the wise, and avoid the base and uneducated.

[Text missing]⁹⁶⁹

965.Wachsmuth prints the Latin notice deest, is missing, beneath this Greek heading. The heading survives; the excerpts that once belonged to the chapter are not supplied here.

966.Τὸ θεῖον is the divine. This is a preserved chapter heading followed by the editor’s missing-text notice, not an excerpt or an additional saying attributed to an author.

967.Τὸ κρεῖττον, literally what is superior, is rendered the higher power. The heading names the topic of the missing chapter; no surviving excerpts follow it here to show how that topic was developed.

968.Μαντική is divination; πρόγνωσις is foreknowledge. The rejected second [καί], and, remains in Greek and is omitted from English. With that deletion, foreknowledge is the subject of is necessary, rather than a disconnected additional topic. Only the heading survives here.

969.Συνουσία here is association or company; περὶ πολλοῦ ποιεῖσθαι means to value highly. The heading contrasts the company of the wise with that of the base and uneducated. The editor again marks the chapter’s text as missing.