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But why need I recount the multitude of the soul’s maladies? The present occasion of itself brings them to mind. Do you see this vast and promiscuous crowd which jostles and surges in confusion here about the tribunal and the market-place? These persons have come together, not to sacrifice to their country’s gods, not to share in each other’s family rites, not bringing to Ascraean Zeus For the cult of Ascraean Zeus at Halicarnassus cf. Apollonius, Historia Mirabilium, 13 (Keller, Rerum Naturalium Scriptores Graeci Minores, i. p. 47). the first-fruits of Lydian harvests, Probably a quotation from a poet: Reiske thought Pindar; Haupt ( Opuscula, iii. 554), an anonymous tragic poet (and cf. Wilamowitz, Hermes, xl. 163, 164, note 1). nor, in honour of Dionysus, to celebrate his mystic festival on sacred nights with common revellings, but, as it were, a mighty pestilence drives them together here with yearly visitations stirring up Asia, which must come for law-suits and litigation at certain stated times; and the overwhelming multitude, like streams flowing together, has inundated this one market-place and boils with fury and dashes together in a tumult of destroyers and destroyed. Homer, Il., iv. 451. What fevers, what agues, have brought this about? What stoppages, or irruptions of blood, cf.Moralia, 129 d. or distemperature of heat, or overflow of humours, have caused this? If you examine every law-suit, as though it were a person, to discover what gave rise to it and whence it came, you will find that obstinate anger begat one, frantic ambition another, unjust desire a third...
