BOOK I CH. XxI § 58. 155

§ 1722, and for its use as a secondary predicate § 1724, also Draeger § 498, who says that it is usually preceded by saepe, as in Fin. v 54, De Orat. II 22, 144, 155. [His exx. are confined to C., add Virg. Aen. 111 623 vidi egomet cum frangeret. R.]
sine dubio. On the substantival use of the Neuter Adj. with prep. see Nag. Stil. § 21, Draeg. § 23 foll.
dilucide, copiose. Similar compliments are paid to the speaker in Fin. v 1, 7, Ac. I 48, 11 63. As Zeno is praised for the same merits below, and is equally censured for asperity in § 98, it has been supposed that C. intended Vell. to represent Zeno.
quam solent vestri: sc. dicere understood from dictum est. Epic. was as contemptuous of the beauties of composition as Bentham, cf. Fin. 114 orationts ornamenta neglexit ; in Brut. 131 Albucius (mentioned below § 93) is said to have turned out perfectus Epicureus, minime aptum ad dicendum genus; in Pis. 70 Philodemus is mentioned as litteris, quod fere ceteros LEpicureos neglegere dicunt, perpolitus; Tusc. 117 (of the Latin Epicureans generally) qguos non contemno equidem, quippe quos numquam legerim ; sed quia profitentur pst ili se neque distincte neque distribute neque eleganter neque ornate scribere, lectionem sine ulla delectatione neglego ; also Tusc. 1 6, Iv 6, Fin. I 26, Zeller Stoves tr. p. 385.
§ 59. Zenonem : cf. § 93, a native of Sidon born about 150 B.c. Atticus and C. attended his lectures at Athens 78 B.c. (Fin. 116, J’use. 1 38). In the latter passage, where he is called acriculus senex istorum acutissimus,