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162 BOOK I Cit. XX § 65.
in solum venit: ‘turns up’, ‘is brought on the tapis’. The origin of the phrase is doubtful : Manutius, in his n. on Mam. 1x 26 tn convivio loquor quod in solum, ut dicitur, suggests that it refers to chance-sown weeds, but I think the word solwm would be more naturally used in reference to what comes from above than from below; perhaps it may be connected with the legal res soli ‘whatever comes on the ground’ (counts as real property). [May not the phrase mean literally ‘meets the foot’, éumoddv yiyverar? Cf. quidquid in buccam, in mentem venit. J.S. R.]
quae primum nullae sunt: ‘for in the first place there are no such things as atoms’, cf. § 61.
nihil est enim—corpore. Lambinus saw that some words must have been lost between enim and quod, and the gap has been supplied as follows by Sch. (partly from the parallel passage in Ac. I 27) quae primum nullae sunt: nihil est enim ‘Sin rerum natura minimum quod dividi nequeat’, to which he adds deinde, ut sint, movert per inane non possunt, siguidem id dicis inane quod vacet corpore, thus providing an in- telligible meaning for enim and primum, see his Opusc. 11 287. Primum however might correspond to § 68 concedam—quid ad rem ? And the autem which follows corportbus (unless with Heind. we read enim instead, according to one of the Codd. Eliens., so as to give a reason for moveri non potest) would suit better with some such context as this, moveri nisi per inane non possunt ; inane autem id dicis esse quod vacet corpore ; corporibus autem, &c. On the existence and indivisibility of atoms see Lucr. 1 483— 635 ; on the existence of void as essential to motion 329—397. For the views of Leucippus and Democritus cf. Jntroduction and R. and P. §§ 79, 80.
Ch. xxiv § 66. physicorum oracula fundo: ‘in this I am merely the mouthpiece of our scientific oracles’. On orae. ef. Orat. 1 200, domus juris consulti oraculum, Plin. Nat. Hist. xvuirt 6, and 8 (of the precepts of Cato and other writers on agriculture), cur non videantur oracula?...ex oraculo scilicet ;...inde ila reliqua oracula; Quintil. x11 11 (of the help which a young orator might receive from an experienced pleader) juvenes veram dicendi viam velut ex oraculo petent; X 1 § 81 (of Plato). On fundo cf. § 42 poetarum vocibus fusa. C. gives the same report as to the views of the natural philosophers in “in. 120 ne wlud quidem physict (est) credere aliquid esse minimum, Fat. 24 physict quibus inane esse nihil placet, Ac. 11 125 tune aut inane quicquam putes esse, cum ita completa et conferta sint omnia, ut et quod movelitur corporum cedat, et qua quidque cesserit aliud ilico consequatur 2 'The majority of the ancient physic?! followed Aristotle in (1) affirming the infinite divisibility of matter, Phys. vi 1 wav ouveyés Statperiv eis cet Scatpera, Cael. 11 4 (of Democritus and Leucippus) avay«n
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1 «The Platonists however showed some tendency towards atomism; com- pare the indivisible triangles of Plato, the drowoe ypauuat of Speusippus, and the Syxou of Heraclides’. J. S. R.