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172 eOYKYAIAOY ^YPrPA^HS B.* which succeed one another throughout the year.' At Athensthe festivals were more frequent than elsewhere, and perhapsridicule was cast upon them by the Spartans, just as theRomans ridiculed the Jews and Christians for wasting timeover their weekly sabbath. vo|x£Jovt€s— = x/"^Mfo' : anIonic use, cf. i. 74, end. Karao-Kcvais tv.—c. 65, 2. Ka0'f|^€pav f| T£p\{fis i.e. 7) KaO' 17. T^p\j/ii. Cf. c. 18, 3. For thereason of this transposition, see Intr. p. xl. The object hereis to contrast kclO' T}ixipav with SiexT/criots, in which there is alegitimate gain, since KaO^ r)fiApav is always used of ordinarybusiness, whereas dierrjcriois applies to the holidays : also toextend the force of Kad' -q. to fKirXifjcrfffi and rb XvirrjpSv, as inc. 7, 2 i^ 'IraXlas belongs partly to iroieiadai. rh Xvirqpivof the petty worries of life, which oppress the middle classes,and take all the pleasure out of liJFe. Pericles alludes toSparta. Cf. Burke, On American Taxation, ' If I were todetail the imports, I could show how many enjoyments theyprocure which deceive the burden of life.'38, 2. ToL irdvTa—cf. c. 11, 6, 36, 4, 'all that we need.'The echo in irdtrijs ... irdvTa is what Cornificius calls traductio.It is a variety of irapovofiaffia. Cf. VI. 87, 4 ev iravrl yap irasXi^pi- VI. 11, 1 5ta TToWoO ye Kal toWuv 6vtwv. olKCioWptjiK.T.\.—lit. 'the enjoyment with which we reap the harvest ofthe good things produced in our own land is not more our ownthan that of the productions of the rest of the world,' i.e.'we have the advantage of enjoying the products of othercountries as freely as those of our own.' rd dYa6d—not theproducts of the soil only, but those of the mind as well.avTov—adv., cf. c. 7, 2.89, 1. Kal— 'further.' Here Pericles, who has not beforeopenly alluded to Sparta, first avows the contrast. rats|i,eX€Tais ... ToicrSt—the second dat. restricts the first. twvIvavrCwv—with dia