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210 BOOK I CH. XXXvII § 103.
mupos mda kat Badifer ; then to prove that some animals can exist in fire he refers to the salamander, avrn yap, bs haat, da mupds Badifovca xatacBev- vuot To Tip. Pliny (WV. //, x1 42) calls this fire-born creature pyrausta or pyralis:; he has many wonderful stories about the salamander (x 86, XI 116, xx1x 23) but never speaks of its being produced from fire, while Aclian expressly denies it (1. A. 1131), 7) cadapavdpa ove Cote pev TOY Tupos eyyover, ovde €& avTod Tikteral, waoTep of KaAOVpevor Tuplyovol, Oappet dé adro, Kc. In 11 42 the stars are said to be the denizens of aether.
§ 104. naturae accommodatum=olkeiov. Onthis Stoic doctrine cf. Mady. Fin. 11 16, v 24 (omni animali illud quod appetit positum est in eo quod naturae est accommodatum), Exc. tv, Ae. 11 38, WV. D. ur 33.
denique—postremo: so Agr. 11 62 regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia, Cat. 11 25 denique aequitas, temperantia certant cum iniquitate, postremo copia cum egestate,...bona denique spes cum desperatione, N. D. U1 23 omni denique doctrina eruditus, postremo philosophus erit mundus.
ulcus est: ‘it will not bear handling’, is ‘unsound’; wleus like vulnus is often used metaphorically, as in Pro domo 12 unguis in ulcere (of a fresh irritant added to previous discontent), Ter. Phorm. Iv 4 10 ulcus (al. vulnus) tangere ‘to touch a tender spot’.
ita male—exitum reperire: ‘reasoning which starts from such insecure premises can come to no result’, so Orat. 116 in omnibus quae ratione docentur et via, primum constituendum est quid quidque sit; nisi enim inter eos, qui disceptant, convenit, quid sit illud de quo ambigitur, nec recte disseri, nec umquam ad exitum perventit potest (see Schiitz Lew.), also WV. D. 111 36 videamus exitum, I § 107 exitum reperitis, § 53 explicare argumenti exitum. [Add Ac. 11 36 eaxitum non habebunt. J.S. R.]
§ 105. sic enim dicebas: cf. § 49 with the notes.
speciem dei: in the parallel passage vim et naturam deorum.
neque deficiat umquam ex infinitis corporibus similium accessio: cf. § 49 cum infinita simillimarum imaginum series ex tnnumerabilibus indi- viduis exsistat.
Ch. xxxvur. si—ad cogitationem valent: ‘if they are of force only for the production of mental (as opposed to visual) images’ (lit. only for the thinking faculty).
eminentiam: see n. on eminentis § 75.
Hippocentauro : prose writers usually employ the compound form both in Lat. and Gr. ; thus we find immokévravpos used by Plato and Xenophon, hipp. by Pliny and Quintilian. It is a stock word for a non-ens, see It 3, Sext. Emp. J/ath. 1x 49, 123, Hirz. p. 42.
conformationem animi: cf. Top. 27 (of intangible things there is nevertheless) conformatio quaedam insignita et impressa in intellegentia, quam notionem voco, Herenn. Ut c. 20 ret totius imaginem conformabimus, ‘we willimagine the whole scene’; the word ¢formatio is more common in this sense, cf. §§ 43, 76, 101.