BOOK I CH Xx § 55, 151

imitata est hominum verecundia. It is what the Stoic means by his periphrasis vim quandam incredibilem artificiost operis Ir 138.
innumerabiles mundos: Diog. x 45 adda py Kal Koopot aretpoi eiow, 10’ Guo.oe Tovr@ elre avopouot’ ai Te yap Aropor arretpor ovoat Pepovtat TOppw- Tdrw, ov yap Katnvadovrat ai Tovadras Groot €€ wy av yévoito Kocpos...0UTE eis éva ovre eis memepacpevous...daTe ovdev TO eumodiCoy eatl mpos THY aretpiay TOY KOTLOY.
ut tragici poetae: copied from Plato Crat. 425 D domep of tpaywSorouol, ere.Oay TL aTopacw, emi ras enxavas karapevyovat, Oeovs aipovres. So Arist. Met.1 4 p. 985 b ’AvaEaydpas pnxava xpitae TP vo mpds THY Kocporrotiay, Kat Otay amopnon Sia tiv’ airiay é& dvaykns €oti, Tore mapéAKes avrov, cf. Orelli on Hor. A. P. 191 and Erasmus Adag. on deus ex machina. ‘This device was so abused by Euripides that, in nine out of his eighteen tragedies, a divinity descends to unravel the complicated knot’, Schlegel Dram. Lit.
explicare—exitum: ‘to disentangle the issue of the plot’ ‘bring about the final development’, so fabulae exitus, Cael. 65; cf. the déois and Advots of Aristotle, Poet. c. 18.
potestis : posswnt would be more correct, but C. compresses into one the clause of comparison and the principal clause, by the attraction of the verb of the former into the construction of the latter : the converse attrac- tion is more common in Greek, esp. with ovy domep. In this way a simile passes into a metaphor, as in Hor. Lp. 1 10. 42 quoted by Sch. ; ef. too Lp.11.2; 2.42; 7. 74.
§ 54. non desideraretis: ‘you would not have missed’ ‘felt to be needed ’,
se injiciens : see n. on mentem intentam § 49.
ita—ut: restrictive force, ‘however far it wanders, is still unable to reach the end.’ Cf. Zumpt § 726, Roby § 1704, and my n. on ita si § 3, and ita multa § 4, and the exx. in Sch.’s n. here.
nullam oram ultimi: ‘no limit of furthest’; Gen. of Definition, some- times called Epexegetic. Sch. compares jines montium ‘the boundary formed by the mountains’: see Mayor’s Second Philippic, index s.v. gent- tive, Roby § 1302, Draeger § 202. For the thought compare Lucr. 1 958 foll., esp. 980 oras ubicunque locaris | eatremas, quaeram quid telo denique fiat. | Fiet uti nusquam possit consistere finis | effugiumque fugae prolatet copia semper ; | also 1. 72 and Fin. 11 102.
vis atomorum: so v. serpentium § 101, v. aurt Tuse. v 91, v. ranun- culorum Fam. vit 18, v. lacrimarum Rep. vi 14. Cf. the Irishism ‘a power of’, and the Fr. ‘force’.
follibus et incudibus: belonging to a fabrica, cf. § 19.
itaque: ‘by your notions of a creation’.
imposuistis in cervicibus: see Zumpt § 490 on the compounds of pono, Draeg. § 298 Aw and co, and my nn. on § 29 in deorum numero refert, and § 45 insculpsit in mentibus. _
timeremus: on the Imperf. Subj. used after the true Perf. see Zumpt
152 BOOK I CH. XX § 54.
§ 514 and my notes on § 3 fuerunt qui censerent, and § 8 profecisse— vinceremur.
quis non timeat: cf. Acad. 11 121 (of Strato who explained the origin of the world from natural causes) ne wle et deum opere magno liberat et me timore. Quis enim potest, cum existimet curari se a deo, non et dies et noctes divinum numen horrere et, si quid adversi acciderit—quod cut non accidit ? extimescere ne id jure evenerit? To remove this fear was the professed object of the Epicurean philosophy, as Ep. himself says in Diog. L. x 112 ei pnOev nuas ai mept trav petedpwv vrowiat nywxAovy kal ai wept Oavartov, ovK Gy mpooedeopeba guadroyias. Cf. Lucr. 1 62 foll., m 1090, mr 15, Vv 1194, vi 35 foll., Virg. Geo. 11 490, Mart. Ep. Iv 21.
curiosum et plenum negotii deum: ‘a busy prying god’. According to the Epicureans the government of the world was both too small and too great a thing for God, see Lucr. 11 1095 foll. quis regere immensi sum- mam, quis habere profundi | indu manu validas potis est moderanter habe- nas, | quis pariter caelos omnis convertere? vI 68 quae (i.e. the idea of special providence) nist respuis ex animo longeque remittis | dis indigna putare alienaque pacis eorum, | delibata deum per te tibi numina sancta | saepe oberunt, and compare Div. 11 105 negant id esse alienum majestate deorum. Scilicet casas omnium introspicere, ut videant quid cuique con- ducat, and § 129 deosne immortales, rerum omnium praestantia excellentes, concursare circum omnium mortalium non modo lectos, verum etiam grabatos, et cum stertentem aliquem viderint, objicere vis visa quaedam tortuosa et obscura? Plin. NV. H. 11 5 irridendum vero agere curam rerum humanarum ulud quidquid est summum. Anne tam tristt atque multiplici ministerio non pollu credamus dubitemusve ?
§ 55. hine vobis exstitit. ‘The Stoic doctrine of necessity was the direct consequence of the Stoic pantheism. The divine force, which governs the world, could not be the absolute uniting cause of all things, if there existed anything in any sense independent of it’, Zeller Stoves tr. p. 166. Fate is nothing but the will of God, which reveals itself as the reason and law of the universe, cf. § 40 n.
primum: taken up by sequitur pavtixn below.
ut dicatis: depending upon and explaining dicitis ‘in the sense that’.
aeterna veritate. That which is fated always has, is, and will be true, see Aristocles ap. Euseb. Pr. Ev. xv 14 ryv b€ rovrwy (things past, present and future) émirdoxiy Kat dkoAovOiav kal ejwappevny Kal emotHuny Kal aAnOevav Kai vopov etvac tav dvtwv ddidadpacroy twa Kal aduxtoy, Stob. LEcl. 1 180, Cic. De Fato 17, 29, 37.
causarum continuatione =cippyss airidy (as Chrysippus defined efuap- pen, Plut. Pl. Ph. 885 B) ‘the chain of causation’, see Heinze Logos p. 125 foll. [ef. Ac. 129 continuationem ordinis sempiterni, Fat. 19, Div. 1 125 and 127, Tac. Ann. VI 22 nexum naturalium causarum. J.S. R.]
aniculis: the stock example of credulity and superstition both among Romans (§ 94, 11 5, Div. 11 36, 141, Tuse. 1 48; anilis NV. D. 1 70, mt 12,