1. Homer (1924–1925), Iliad VI, 181–182; “in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, / breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire” (translation S. Butler); English ‘chimera’ is derived from these lines in Homer, where the chimaira– initially sim-ply meaning ‘goat’–appears as a composite monster.
2. ‘Ataraksia and’ securitas’ are both composites begin-ning with a negation: the Greek word with an ‘alpha privans’, the Latin with’ se’ (‘without’); ‘-taraksia’ is derived from Greek ‘tarassein’ (Little/ Scott 1843, 1961): “to stir, trouble the mind, agitate, disturb”.
3. Thucydides (I, 75–76) mentions three motives for Athenian imperialism: honour, fear, and advantage.
4. Hobbes (1839–1845a) translates: “So that by subduing you, besides the extending of our dominion over so many more subjects, we shall assure it the more over those we had before” (vol. 9, p. 101). As Kaufmann (1973: 72, n. 22) remarks, Hobbes in his early work alternates between’ safety’ and’ security’.
5. Hobbes (1839–18453): “you shall else give an example unto others of the greatest revenge that can be taken, if you chance to miscarry” (vol. 9: 100).