Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations

τὸ μὴ τρυφᾶν ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκάζεσθαι: we should say, ‘the absence of luxury and the necessity,’ &c.

τῶν ποιητῶν τινες: such as the Gnomic poets Hesiod, Theognis, and Phocylides, whom he mentions in § 42, where see notes.

ὑποθήκας, ‘precepts.’ ὑποτιθέναι, lit. ‘place beneath’, ‘put down’, means in the middle voice (1) ‘to lay down as a foundation on principle’, so here ὑποθήκη means ‘a principle’, ‘precept’; (2) ‘to lay down as a presupposition’, ‘to presuppose’, as in § 13 οἷον ὑπεθέμεθα δεῖν εἶναι τὸν ὀρθῶς βασιλεύσοντα, hence ὑπόθεσις, ‘hypothesis’; (3) ‘to propose as a subject of discussion’, as in N. C. 14 ἐντεῦθεν ὑποτιθέμενος ἠρξάμην; cp. ὑπόθεσις, ‘subject’, ‘design’ (§ 7). In the active it has a technical legal meaning ‘to put down as a pledge’, so ‘mortgage’; cp. French hypothèque.