BOOK I CH. XXVI §71. Lgl

condensatio, ‘because all the ancient writers (except Lactantius De Ira x 28 who was no doubt misled by the ambiguity of C.’s words in this passage) agree that the Epicurean Gods were corporeal and compounded of atoms’ ; and he defends his interpretation by the use of concretus in such passages as If 42, 101, Div.1 130. Ido not think we can argue from the use of the Past Part. concretus, which implies the completion of the process, to the verbal, implying the process itself; and besides, the reference is plainly to the sint sane ex atomis of § 68, where it was shown that any such com- pound must be liable to znteritus: to avoid this danger Ep. had recourse to his quast-corpus § 69: then came the parenthesis illustrating hoe per- saepe fucitis, and now in § 71 the subject is resumed in the words ind. corp. concr. fug. ‘he tries to escape from the aggregation of indivisible particles (with its consequences as.above pointed out)’. The only concretio implied in the Gods of § 49 was that of the images, involving superficial area but not depth, cf. monogrammus 1159. The tamquam sanguis was probably suggested by the Homeric ichor, Jl. v 340 pée & GpBporov aipa Geoio, | ixap, olds mép Te peer paxdpeoot Oeoiow* | ov yap airov edova’, od mivove’ aidora oivov" | rotver’ dvaipovés eioe kai dOdvaror Kadéovrat.
sed tamquam corpus: supply dicit esse from the preceding negat, and see n. on nolo § 17.
Ch. xxvi. mirabile videtur—viderit. This saying of Cato the Censor (Div. 11 51) was probably inspired by a feeling of contempt for the Tusci ac barbari, as they are styled by the jealousy of a Roman augur NV. D.11 11. Cic., who prided himself so much on being a member of the augurial college, is indignant when a haruspex is admitted into the Senate, fam. v118. In the De Divinatione 11 28 foll. he states the Academic argu- ment against haruspicina, in answer to his brother Q. who, as a Stoic, was bound to defend every kind of divination.
si in ceris fingeretur. If the reading is correct, the sense and con- struction require that fing. should be taken metaphorically ‘if such a body were fancied in the case of waxen figures’: otherwise the literal sense is suggested by fictilibus and certs (used as in Juv. vit 19, where see Mayor’s n., and ceris fingendis oblectari Justin xxxv1 4). I am inclined to think however that the true reading is sI IN cER[IS DICER]ETUR ‘if the phrase were used in connexion with wax figures’, cf. dicemus in Venere Coa just below. The repetition of cer explains the omission of the letters in brackets, and the remaining letters would be taken for si fingeretur, which would be likely to maintain its ground against the true reading, even after the insertion of zn certs from another text. Plin. V. H. xxxv § 4 speaks of the expressi cera vultus which were used in funerals, and in § 147 of modelling in clay, fingere ex argilla similitudines.
ne tu quidem: ‘no, nor you either’. The phrase occurs in this weaker sense § 110 ne beatus quidem, § 113, 1 87, I 23, 43, 47, 49, 68, 86, see Madv. Fin. Exc. m1 p. 816.
§ 72. quasi dictata redduntur : ‘you repeat your lesson like parrots’.
172 BOOK I CH. XXVI § 72.
Cf. Fin. 11 95 ista vestra ‘st gravis brevis, si longus levis’, dictata sunt; Fin. Iv 10 tsdem de rebus semper quasi dictata decantare neque a commentariolis suis discedere; Fin. 11 20 quis vestrum non edidicit Epicurt rvpias do€as! Juv. v 12 2 peragant dictata magistri, with Mayor’s n. The letters of Ep. preserved by Diog. L. abound in admonitions to his disciples to commit to memory what they had heard from him, see esp. x 35. [See also Fin. 127,Aam8 J.S. R.]
oscitans: cf. Orat. 11 144 tstam oscitantem et dormitantem sapientiam Scaevolarum et ceterorum beatorum (jurists as opposed to pleaders) otio concedamus.
halucinatus est: (connected with hariolor by Vanicek, but the mean- ing seems to suit better the old etymology connecting it with ddve), properly used of a mooning dreamy state, as in Col. vit 3 ne fur aut bestia halucinantem pastorem decipiat ; then of idle random talk as here and (without blame) Q. Fr. 11 11 epistulae nostrae debent interdum halucinari ‘descend to prattle’ ; Seneca uses halucinatio of silly abuse, Vet. Beat. 26.
cum quidem gloriaretur: ‘boasting all the time’. Cf Fam. x 32, Nep. Thras. 2 ad fin., and see Roby §§ 1722, 1732, Draeg. § 570, also § 497 D3 on the Ind. with cum quidem.
se magistrum habuisse nullum: cf. Diog. L. x 13 rodrov ’AmoAACSwpos év Xpovtxots Navowpavovs dkovoal dno kai IIpakéibavous’ avros S€ ov hyawy, GAN éavrod év TH mpos Evpvd.xov émioroAy...Anuntpios b€ pnow 6 Mayyns kat Eevoxparovs avrov axovoa. Plut. Jf 1100 A.
et non praedicanti. Baiter and Miiller accept Klotz’s emendation of et for et, in obedience to Valla’s dictum that e¢ is never used in the emphatic sense (=etiam) by C., but, if we allow any weight to Mss, we must admit the use not only here, but in § 83 age et his vocabulis, in Tusc. 11 28 et illa laudantur, Leg. 1 33 ergo et lex, Fin. ut 27 ergo et probandum, Div. 1 34 et auctoritatem. See further Draeg. § 312 (some of whose exx. however are more properly explained on the principle of anacoluthon treated of in Mady. Fin. Exe. 1), Roby § 2198, Moser on Jwusc. l.c., Munro’s Luer. ind. under eft, Dumesnil on Leg. I 33, and a copious list of exx. in Kiihnast’s Liv. Synt. p. 371 foll.
nihil olet ex Academia: ‘he has not the slightest flavour of the Academy’. Sch. Opuse. 11 365 defends and illustrates the construction against Klotz. Compare the similar uses of redoleo, sapio, odor (urbanitatis Orat. 111 161, dictaturae Att. Iv 11), and Gr d¢o.
puerilibus disciplinis: the ordinary school lessons, éyxvxcAos mavdeia, consisting of Reading, Writing, Arithmetic (included under ypappara) Poetry and Music (included under povorkn), see Becker Charicles tr. p. 231 foll. On the view of Ep. cf. Diog. L. x 6 (the words of Epicurus to a disciple) mradetav 5€ macay, pakdpre, devye, With the notes in Huebner’s ed., and Athenaeus xu 588 there quoted, Ex. éyxuxAlov maideias apuntos ov euakdpile kal TOUS Opoiws a’T@ eri dioaodiay mapepxopevors ; Fin. 1 26 vel- lem equidem aut ipse doctrinis fuisset instructior (est enim non satis politus irs