BOOK I CH. XxiII § 63. 161

same letter C. says that with one exception all the Carbos had shown them- selves bad citizens.
Neptuni filius: cf. Gell. xv 21 praestantissimos virtute, prudentia, viri- bus, Jovis filios poetae appellaverunt, ut Aeacum et Minoa et Sarpedona ; Ferocissimos et immanes et alienos ab omni humanitate, tamquam e mari gentos, Neptuni filios dixerunt, Cyclopa et Cercyona et Scirona et Laestry- gones ; Serv. ad Aen. ut 241 alii dicunt Harpyias Neptuni filias, qui fere prodigiorum omnium pater est,...sic et peregrinos Neptuni filios dicimus quorum ignoramus parentes ; Cornutus 22 mavras rods Biaiovs Kal peyadem- Bovdous yevopuevous, Os Tov Kukhowra kal Tovs Aaotpuyovas Kal Tovs ’Adwidas, Tloce:ddvos euiGevoav exyovous eiva. Welcker Gétterlehre 11 678 adds the names of Procrustes, Sinis, Amycus, Antaeus, Busiris, and refers to the various sea-monsters of fable : he also cites the phrase Veptuni nepos used of the files Gloriosus 1, 15, and the reproachful words of Patroclus to Achilles, yNavky dé oe rikre Oadacca, | wérpar 8 ArBarou, dte ToL voos eaTiv drnuns | Jl. xvi 34. Mr Gladstone (Juventus Mundi 241—251) connects this with his theory of the Phoenician origin of the worship of Poseidon, and suggests that there may be some allusion to ‘the rough manners of a sea- faring and buccaneering people’. For the form of expression we may compare fortunae filius, (wypapev maides, and the Hebraistic viol pPwros &e. (Winer’s Gram. p. 298 ed. Moulton.)
Lucilius: on the date of his birth see Munro 7. c.; the best ed. of his fragments is by L. Miiller, 1872, who has also written on his Leben und Werke 1876.
explorata: ‘clearly made out,’ §§ 1, 51.
C.c. The atomic doctrine is opposed to science: if it were true, wt would be inconsistent with the immortality of the Gods. When Epi- curus, by way of evading the difficulty, speaks of quasi-corporeal Gods, he becomes unintelligible. xxii. 65—xxvii. 75,
§ 65. unde: their origin from atoms; ubi their abode in the znter- mundia § 103 foll.; quales corpore human shape § 76 foll.; animo perfection of rationality and virtue § 87 foll.; vita a blessed and ever- lasting repose, § 102, 111. The confused order of the book is shown in the repetition of these queries § 103.
atomorum regno et licentia: ‘the lawless rule of the atoms’, referring to their capricious and irregular movements, cf. § 69, and Fin. 1 20 ‘if some atoms swerve, while others keep the direct line, primum erit hoc quasi provincias atomis dare quae recte quae oblique ferantur’, so Fat. 46 num sortiuntur inter se quae declinet, quae non? For the hendiadys cf. § 29 imagines earumque circuitus n.; for the use of licentia § 107 a Democrito omnis haec licentia, § 109 at quam licenter, Div. 11 127 ista designandi licentia ‘arbitrary apportionment’, also 150, and Fiat. 15.