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[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.
