[Footnote 344:  Socrates. (See note 187.)]

[Footnote 345:  Prytaneum.  A public hall at Athens.]

[Footnote 346:  Sir Thomas More.  An English statesman and author who was beheaded in 1535 on a charge of high treason.  The incident to which Emerson refers is one which showed his “pleasant wit” undisturbed by the prospect of death.  As the executioner was about to strike, More moved his head carefully out of reach of the ax.  “Pity that should be cut,” he said, “that has never committed treason.”]

[Footnote 347:  Blue Laws.  Any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations.  The term is usually applied to the early laws of New Haven and Connecticut which regulated personal and religious conduct.]

[Footnote 348:  Epaminondas. (See note 329.)]

[Footnote 349:  Olympus.  A mountain of Greece, the summit of which, according to Greek mythology, was the home of the gods.]

[Footnote 350:  Jerseys.  Consult a history of the United States for a full account of Washington’s campaign in New Jersey.]

[Footnote 351:  Milton. (See note 151.)]

[Footnote 352:  Pericles.  A famous Greek statesman of the fifth century before Christ, in whose age Athens was preeminent in naval and military affairs and in letters and art.]

[Footnote 353:  Xenophon.  A Greek historian of the fourth century before Christ.]

[Footnote 354:  Columbus.  Give an account of his life.]

[Footnote 355:  Bayard.  Chevalier de Bayard was a French gentleman of the fifteenth century.  He is the French national hero, and is called “The Knight without fear and without reproach.”]

[Footnote 356:  Sidney.  Probably Sir Philip Sidney, an English gentleman and scholar of the sixteenth century who is the English national hero as Bayard is the French; another brave Englishman was Algernon Sidney, a politician and patriot of the seventeenth century.]

[Footnote 357:  Hampden.  John Hampden was an English statesman and patriot who was killed in the civil war of the seventeenth century.]

[Footnote 358:  Colossus.  The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic statue—­over a hundred feet in height—­of the Rhodian sun god.  It was one of the seven wonders of the world; it was destroyed by an earthquake about two hundred years before Christ.]

[Footnote 359:  Sappho.  A Greek poet of the seventh century before Christ.  Her fame remains, though most of her poems have been lost.]

[Footnote 360:  Sevigne.  Marquise de Sevigne was a French author of the seventeenth century.]

[Footnote 361:  De Stael.  Madame de Stael was a French writer whose books and political opinions were condemned by Napoleon.]

[Footnote 362:  Themis.  A Greek goddess.  The personification of law, order, and justice.]

[Footnote 363:  A high counsel, etc.  Such was the advice given to the Emerson boys by their aunt, Miss.  Mary Moody Emerson:  “Scorn trifles, lift your aims; do what you are afraid to do; sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive.”  Upon her monument are inscribed Emerson’s words about her:  “She gave high counsels.  It was the privilege of certain boys to have this immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood, a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.”]