The History of Roman Literature Part 47

[37] De repetundis, de peculatu, de ambitu, de maiestate, de nummis adulterinis, de falsis testamentis, de sicariis, de vi.

[38] Verr. i. 14.

[39] That against Caepio, _De Or_. ii. 48, 199.

[40] _Eloquentium iurisperitissimus_: Scaevola was _iurisperitorum eloquentissimus_.--Brut. 145.

[41] De Or. iii. 1, 4.

[42] Brut. lv.

[43] Orator. lxiii. 213.

[44] Judiciorum rex. Divin. in Ae. Caecil. 7.

[45] Dict. Biog. s.v. Hortensius. Forsyth's _Hortensius_, and an article on him by M. Charpentier in his "Writers of the Empire," should be consulted.

[46] Div. in Q. Caecil.

[47] Brut. xcv.

[48] "Dellendus Cicero est, Latiaeque silentia linguae"--_Sen Suas._

CHAPTER XI.

[1] Au vos consulere scitis, consulem facere nescitis? See Teuffel, R. L.

-- 130, 6.

[2] Lael. i. His character generally is given, Brut. xxvi. 102.

[3] Q. Mucius Scaevola, Pontifex, son of Publius, nephew of Q. Mucius Scaevola, Augur.

[4] Quoted by Teuffel, -- 141, 2.

[5] Dict. Biog.

[6] See De Or. i. 53, 229.

[7] Ep. ii. 2, 89.

[8] ii. 4, 42.

[9] See Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 149, -- 4.

[10] Compare Lucr. i. 633. Magis inter _inanes_ quamde gravis inter Graios qui vera requirunt.

[11] Brut. lvi. 207.

[12] De Or. ii. 37.

[13] "_egertika noaeseos_."--_Plat. Rep_. Bk. iv.

[14] _apatheia, ataraxia_.

[15] _epistaemae_ and _doxa_, so often opposed in Plato and Aristotle.

[16] s.e.xt. Emp. Pyrrh. Hyp. i. 234. (_Arkesilaos_) _kata men to procheiron pyrroneios ephaineto einai kata de taen alaetheian dogmatikos aen_. So Bacon: Academia nova Acatalepsiam dogmatizavit.

[17] That is, all practically considered _indifference or insensibility_ to be the thing best worth striving after.

[18] Cic. Tusc. iv. 3.

[19] Contrast the indifference of the vulgar for the tougher parts of the system. Lucr. "Haec ratio Durior esse videtur ... retroque volgus abhorret ab hac."

[20] See a fuller account of this system under _Lucretius_.

BOOK II.

PART I.

CHAPTER I.

[1] Caes. B. C. ii. 16-20. From i. 36, we learn that all further Spain had been intrusted to him. Varro was in truth no partisan; so long as he believed Pompey to represent the state, he was willing to act for him.

[2] Phil. ii. 40, 41.

[3] Cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 43, "Sabina qualis aut perusta solibus Pernicis uxor Appuli."

[4] Fr. of Catus. Cf. Juvenal. "Usque adeo nihil est quod nostra infantia caelum Hausit Aventinum, baca nutrita Sabina?"

[5] i. 4, 4.

[6] Ac. Post. i. 2. 8. He there speaks of them as _vetera nostra_.

[7] Given in Appendix, note i.

[8] Given in Aulus Gellius, xiii. xi. 1.

[9] v. i., et Romae quidem stat, sedet Athenis, nusquam autem cubat.

[10] We take occasion to observe the frequent insertion of Greek words, as in Lucilius and in Cicero's letters. These all recall the tone of high- bred conversation, in which Greek terms were continually employed.

[11] Mommsen, vol. iv. pt. 2, p. 594; Riese, Men. Satur. Reliquiae, Lips.

1865.

[12] See the interesting discussion in Cicero, Acad. Post. 1.