Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 by Various
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Note to Aphorism xxxi., p. 30.: "To which he [Plato] may possibly have referred in his phrase [Greek: theoparadotos sophia]." Possibly Coleridge may have borrowed this from Berkeley's _Siris_, § 301., where [Greek: theoparadotos philosophia] is cited from "a heathen writer." The word [Greek: theoparadotos] occurs in Proclus and Marinus (see Valpy's _Stephani Thesaurus_), but not in Plato. The motto from Seneca, prefixed to the Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion, is from the fourty-first Epistle of that writer. The question from Tertullian in the Comment on the eight of those Aphorisms, "Certum est quia impossibile est."--p. 199. is from the _De Carne Christi_, cap. v. Aphorism iv., p. 227.: "In wonder all philosophy began." See Plato's _Theætetus_ § 32., p. 155. Gataker on Antonin, i. 15. Plutarch _de EI Delph_. cap. 2. p. 385 B. Sympos, v. 7., p. 680 C. Aristot. _Metaph_. 1. 2. 9. In the "Sequelæ" annexed to this Aphorism, it is said of Simonides (p. |
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