The History of Roman Literature Part 48

[13] _Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum_.

[14] He also quotes the Aeneid as a source of religious ideas. Civ. D. v.

18, 19, et al.

[15] C. D. vi. 3, qui agant, ubi agant, quando agant, quid agant.

[16] Qui exhibeant (sacra), ubi exhibeant, quando exhibeant, quid exhibeant, quibus exhibeant.

[17] Plato says, _Synoptikis a dialektikos_; the true philosopher can embrace the whole of his subject; at the same time, _temnei kai arthpa_; he carves it according to the joints, not according to his notions where the joints should be (_Phaedr._) But the Romans only understood Plato's popular side.

[18] See the end of the Res Rust. Bk. i.

[19] L. L. ix, 15; cf. vi. 82, x. 16, v. 88.

[20] R. R. iii. 5.

[21] Acad. Post. i. 3.

[22] Civ. Dei iv. 31.

[23] Cic. De Or. i. 39; N. D. ii. 24.

[24] Civ. Dei vi. 5.

[25] Seneca.

[26] Civ. Dei xviii. 9, 10, 17.

[27] Ad Att. xvi. 11. The Greek term simply means "a gallery of distinguished persons," a.n.a.logously named after the _Peplos_ of Athene, on which the exploits of great heroes were embroidered.

[28] That on Demetrius Poliorcetes is preserved: "Hic Demetrius aeneis tot aptust Quot luces habet annus exsolutus" (_aeneis_ = bronze statues).

[29] Plin. x.x.xv. 2; benignissimum inventum.

[30] See Bekker's Gallus, p. 30, where the whole subject is discussed.

[31] Civ. Dei, vi. 2.

[32] Aul. Gell. iii. 10, quotes also from the _Hebdomades_ in support of this.

[33] Muller notices with justice the mistake of Cicero in putting down Varro as a disciple of Antiochus, whereas the frequent philosophical remarks scattered throughout the _De Lingua Latina_ point to the conclusion that at this time, Varro had become attached to the doctrines of stoicism. It is evident that there was no real intimacy between him and Cicero. See ad Att. xiii. 12, 19; Fam. ix. 8.

[34] vi. 6, vii. 76.

[35] v. 92, vii. 32.

[36] v. 44, 178.

[37] v. 71, vii. 87.

[38] vi. 52, vii. 36.

[39] vii. 60; where, after a quotation from Plautus, we have--"hoc itidem in Corollaria Naevius: idem in Curculione ait,"--where the words from _hoc_ to _Naevius_ are an after addition. Cf. vii. 54.

[40] _E.g._ h.o.m.o bulla--Di facientes adiuvant--Romani sedentes vinc.u.n.t.

[41] Varro refuses to invoke the Greek G.o.ds, but turns to the old rustic _di Consentes_, Jupiter, Tellus; Sol, Luna; Robigus, Flora; Minerva, Venus; Liber, Ceres; Lympha and Bonus Eventus. A motley catalogue!

[42] ii. 4.

[43] ii. 4.

CHAPTER II.

[1] The biographical details are to a great extent drawn from Forsyth's Life of Cicero.

[2] Or _diosaemeia_.

[3] _Pro Quintio._

[4] _Pro S. Roscio Amerino._

[5] See _De Off._ ii. 14.

[6] _Pro Roscio Comoedo_.

[7] _Pro M. Tullio_.

[8] _Divinatio in Caecilium_.

[9] In Verrem. The t.i.tles of the separate speeches are _De Praetura Urbana_, _De Iurisdictione Siciliensi_, _De Frumento_, _De Signis_, _De Suppliciis_.

[10] _Pro Fonteio_.

[11] _Pro Caecina_.

[12] _Pro Matridio_ (lost).

[13] _Pro Oppio_ (lost).

[14] _Pro Fundanio_ (lost).

[15] _Pro A. Cluentio Habito_.

[16] _Pro lege Manilia_.

[17] _Pro G. Cornelio_.