BOOK I CH, XXXvII § 102. 209

(deum contrasted with puert) see Zumpt § 781. For the Ind. volumus see § 80 n. on arbitramur.
ne—non: used rather than wt after vereamur, because of the wt pre- ceding. [Or perhaps to bring in the negative emphatically at the end of the sentence. J.S. R.]
C.e. Even if we grant that there are such images as Epicurus describes, what ground have we for assuming that there is any reality corresponding to them? And how ts happiness, i.e. pleasure of sense, possible to his gods? Ch. xxxvit § 103—Ch. xur § 114.
§ 103. domicilium—sedes—locus: proceeding from less to more general, ‘home, habitat, region’. [‘What is his home? where is he living ? At any rate where is he? How does he spend his life? What are the sources of the blessedness you attribute to him?’ R.]
actio vitae : cf. § 2, n. § 45.
id quod vultis: i.e. beatus, cf. Madv. § 315 b.
[utatur—fruatur: perhaps an allusion to the legal usus fructus; he who is to be blessed must not be a mere owner, but have the present use and enjoyment of his goods. R.]
qui beatus futurus est=Jdoris peAXer evdaipov eva, cf. Madv. § 341, Dumesnil on Leg. 1 56.
naturis quae sine animis sunt: ‘the material elements’. According to Aristotle each of these has its natural place, to which it naturally moves, cf. 1144 n., 11 34, Zusc. 1 43, and Zeller? 11 439 foll., Whewell, ist. Ind. Sci. 1 35 foll.
infimum : i.e. the centre, cf. 11 84, 116 (medium infimum in sphaera est), Arist. Cael. 1v 4.
inundet: more commonly used of excessive floods.
superior aeri, aetheriis: Miiller’s excellent emendation leaves no doubt as to the origin of the Ms reading: the eye of the scribe passed from the ert of superior to the same letters in the following word. On the ag. aeth. cf. 11 101 foll.
reddatur : ‘given as its right’, Gr. drodidapu.
quasi ancipites. Cf. Colum. vir 13 venio ad eas aves, quas Graect vocant dppifia, quia non tantum terrestria, sed aquatilia quoque desiderant pabula, nec magis humo quam stagno consueverunt, and Varro R. R. mt 10.
quae igne nasci putentur. Sch. quotes a passage from Seneca Q. WV. v 6, which illustrates both the sense and construction, zgnis, qui omnia consumit, quaedam etiam creat ; et quod videri potest non simile veri, tamen verum est, animalia igne generari ; so we find caelo natus, Nilo natus, spuma procreata, Nilo orta, ur 55 and 59. Aristotle is the first authority for this statement. He believed in spontaneous generation (Gen. An. ut 9, Hist. An. V 19) and reports that in Cyprus 03 1 yadkiris NiOos Kalerat, yiyverat Onpia €v TH Trvpi, TOV peyarov puidv pixpov te pelCova Umomrepa, a Sia Tod