L. x 97 9 @Oeia vows mpos tadta pndayn mpocayéabw GAN adetro’pyntos

(vacatione munerum below) StatnpeioOw Kat év macy pakapia. That the divine happiness consisted in self-contemplation was asserted by Aristotle Met. x11 1072 b. see n. on § 33. In accordance with this belief the wise man of Epicurus withdrew as far as possible from public life (Zeller Stozcs p. 463).
implicatus: so Of. 11 39 negotiis implicantur, Ac. I 11 offedis ¢mpli- catum.
exploratum habet: cf. § 1n., Draeger § 143, Roby § 1402.
Ch. xx. § 52. sive enim—celeritate: see § 24 n. and the Stoic answer II 59.
nisi quietum nihil beatum: Ep. held that happiness consisted mainly in drapafia. Cf. § 24 mens constans et vita beata.
in ipso mundo. According to the natural order this clause should have preceded its correlative, sive mundus deus est ; it would then certainly not have had the zpso, and the force of zpse in the related clause would have been clearer. As it is, C. has carelessly repeated the emphatic pronoun, which has no meaning here, though there seems no reason for doubting its genuineness, as Sch. has done.
mutationes temporum: cf. § 4 n.
vicissitudines ordinesque : ‘ hendiadys=vie. ordinatas’, Sch.
ne ille est implicatus. Cf 111 ne ego incautus. In Cicero’s writings me is always followed immediately by a pronoun, and it usually occurs in the apodosis of a conditional or quasi conditional sentence. [I think that the rule about the pronoun holds good for Latin prose generally. The two passages of Livy formerly quoted for the absence of the pronoun, xxvi 31, xxxIv 4, have both been altered by Weissenborn. The rule as to the conditional has many exceptions, e.g. Att. Iv 4b ne tu emisti, cf. Fleckeisen in Philol. 1 61—130. J. 8S. R.]
§ 53. beatam vitam in animi securitate: Fin. v 23 Democriti securitas, quae est animi tamquam tranquillitas, quam appellavit evOvpiar... ea ipsa est beata vita.
natura: not in the Stoic sense, but as used by Strato § 35, of a blind force, cf. Lucr. 1 1021 foll.
fabrica: see § 19 n. Of. 1126 principio corporis nostri magnam natura ipsa videtur habuisse rationem ;...hane naturae tam diligentem fabricam