1, Sec. 2. It is not my business to explain Aristotle, but to
give some clue to the meaning of Plutarch.
The word "accidentally" ([Greek: kata tuchen]) is opposed to
"forethought" ([Greek: pronoia]), "design," "providence." How Plutarch
conceived Fortune, I do not know; nor do I know what Fortune and
Chance mean in any language. But the nature of the contrast which he
intends is sufficiently clear for his purpose.]
[Footnote 102: As to Attes, as Pausanias (vii. 17) names him, his
history is given by Pausanias. There appears to be some confusion in
his story. Herodotus (i. 36) has a story of an Atys, a son of Croesus,
who was killed while hunting a wild boar; and Adonis, the favourite of
Venus, was killed by a wild boar. It is not known who this Arcadian
Atteus was.
Actaeon saw Diana naked while she was bathing, and was turned by her
into a deer and devoured by his dogs. (Apollodorus, _Biblioth_. iii.
4; Ovidius, _Metamorph_. iii. 155.) The story of the other Actaeon is
told by Plutarch (_Amator. Narrationes_, c. 2).]
[Footnote 103: The elder Africanus, P. Cornelius Scipio, who defeated
Hannibal B.C. 202, and the younger Africanus, the adopted son of the
son of the elder Africanus, who took Carthage B.C. 146. See Life of
Tib. Gracchus, c. 1, Notes.]
[Footnote 104: Ios, a small island of the Grecian Archipelago, now
Nio, is mentioned among the places where Homer was buried.
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