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In 1906, not yet having learned the lesson of "Cavete Graecos dona ferentes," and moved by the representations of Sir Harry H. Johnston, the country negotiated a new loan of £100,000. £30,000 of this amount was to satisfy pressing obligations; but the greater portion was to be turned over to the Liberian Development Company, a great scheme by which the Government and the company were to work hand in hand for the development of the country.
Sic Herculem et Liberum apud Graecos; Quirinum apud nos, deum numero, additos. VIII. A few words, in conclusion, may be said about the oldest manuscript containing the first six, and, consequently, all the books of the Annals.
Even the choice of the subject serves the same purpose at any rate the Hellenic literati of all ages have found an especially suitable handle for their Graeco-cosmopolite tendencies in this very manipulation of Roman history. Ennius lays stress on the circumstance that the Romans were reckoned Greeks: -Contendunt Graecos, Graios memorare solent sos.
Orat. ad Graecos, c. xiii. And this is therefore that saying: The darkness comprehends not the light. John i. 5. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. It is the formula used, especially by St. Luke, in quotation from the Old Testament Scriptures. The other passage is: Orat. ad Graecos, c. xix. All things were by him, and without him hath been made nothing.
But closer analysis does not confirm the importance of this difference. The initiates of the other cults believed that their Lords were historic persons, just as Christians believed that Jesus was. They had, indeed, lived a long time ago, but this was no disadvantage: any one who reads Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos can see how antiquity, not recentness, was regarded as desirable.
"Aristoni tragico actori rem aperit: huic et genus et fortuna honesta erant: nec ars, quia nihil tale apud Graecos pudori est, ea deformabat." Nay, I have always taxed those with impertinence who condemn these entertainments, and with injustice those who refuse to admit such comedians as are worth seeing into our good towns, and grudge the people that public diversion.
Even the choice of the subject serves the same purpose at any rate the Hellenic literati of all ages have found an especially suitable handle for their Graeco-cosmopolite tendencies in this very manipulation of Roman history. Ennius lays stress on the circumstance that the Romans were reckoned Greeks: -Contendunt Graecos, Graios memorare solent sos.
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