P. 60. _That it is requisite to put the shoe on the right foot first._

This audition is taken from what forms the 12th Symbol in the

Protreptics of Iamblichus, and is as follows: “When stretching forth

your feet to have your sandals put on, first extend your right foot; but

when about to use a foot bath, first extend your left foot.” “This

Symbol, (says Iamblichus,) exhorts to practical prudence, admonishing us

to place worthy actions about us as right-handed; but entirely to lay

aside and throw away such as are base, as being left-handed.”