The History of Witchcraft in Europe. Брэм Стокер

One of the examples of this presage was, that, going along a narrow street with several companions in earnest discourse, he suddenly stopped, and turned another way, warning his friends to do the same. Some yielded to him, and others went on, who were encountered by the rushing forward of a multitude of hogs, and did not escape without considerable inconvenience and injury. ¹⁰² In another instance one of a company among whom was Socrates, had confederated to commit an act of assassination. Accordingly he rose to quit the place, saying to Socrates, “I will be back presently.” Socrates, unaware of his purpose, but having received the intimation of his demon, said to him earnestly, “Go not.” The conspirator sat down. Again however he rose, and again Socrates stopped him. At length he escaped, without the observation of the philosopher, and committed the act, for which he was afterwards brought to trial. When led to execution, he exclaimed, “This would never have happened to me, if I had yielded to the intimation of Socrates.” ¹⁰³ In the same manner, and by a similar suggestion, the philosopher predicted the miscarriage of the Athenian expedition to Sicily under Nicias, which terminated with such signal disaster. ¹⁰⁴ This feature in the character of Socrates is remarkable, and may shew the prevalence of superstitious observances, even in persons whom we might think the most likely to be exempt from this weakness.

22. De Natura Deorum, Lib. I, c. 38.

23. Plato, De Republica, Lib. X, sub finem.

24. Batrachos, v. 1032.

25. De Arte Poetica, v.391.

26. Memoires de l’Academie des Inscriptions, Tom. V, p. 117.

27. De Arte Poetica, v. 391, 2, 3.

28. Virgil, Georgiea, Lib. IV. v. 461, et seqq.

29. Georgiea, iv, 525.

30. Metamorphoses, xi, 55.

31. Philostratus, Heroica, cap. v.

32. Horat, de Arte Poetica, v. 394. Pausanias.

33. Odyssey, Lib. XI, v. 262.

34. Statius, Thebais, Lib. X. v. 599.

35. Ibid, Lib. IV, v. 599.

36. Ibid, Lib. IV, v. 409, et seqq.

37. Lib. IV, c. 36.

38. Iamblichus.

39. Julius Firmicus, apud Scaliger, in Eusebium.

40. Iamblichus, Vita Pythagorae.

41. Pluto, Charmides.

42. Chronological Account of Pythagoras and his Contemporaries.

43. Laertius, Lib. VIII, c. 3.

44. Lloyd, ubi supra.

45. Iamblichus, c. 17.

46. Iamblichus, c. 29.

47. Ibid, c. 7.

48. Laertius, c. 15.

49. Ibid, c. 11.

50. Plutarchus, Symposiaca, Lib. VIII, Quaestio 2.

51. Aulus Gellius, Lib. I, c. 1, from Plutarch.

52. Laertius, c.19.

53. Bailly, Histoire de l’Astronomie, Lib VIII, S.3.

54. Plutarchus, de Esu Carnium. Ovidius, Metamorphoses, Lib. XV. Laertius, c. 12.

55. Iamblichus, c. 16.

56. Laertius, c. 6.

57. Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromata, Lib. I, p. 302.

58. Iamblichus, c.17.

59. Laertius, c. 8. Iamblichus, c. 17.

60. Cicero de Natura Deorum, Lib. I, c. 5.

61. Laertius, c. 9.

62. Ibid.

63. Iamblichus, c. 19.

64. Laertius, c.1.

65. Ibid, c. 18.

66.