Original Transcriber's Note:
I have transliterated the Greek passages. Here are some approximate
translations:
--philomathestatoi ton neaniskon: some of the youths most eager for
knowledge
--Nêpios: childish
--hexeis apodeiktikai: things that can be proven (Aristotle, Nic.
Ethics)
--eidôlon amauron: shadowy phantom (phrase used by Homer in The Odyssey
to describe the specter Athena sends to comfort Penelope)
--all' aiei: but always
--tina phôta megan kai kalon edegmen: I received some great and
beautiful light
'Amid all he has here already achieved, full, we may
think, of the quiet assurance of what is to come,
his attitude is still that of the scholar; he
seems still to be saying, before all
things, from first to last, "I
am utterly purposed
that I will not
offend."'