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De Natura deorum

Chapter 170

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Badi{ov Adyos Thy anagay exet omovdny (Athen. vit 280, xr 546), ra xada mavta kai coda Kal i oe Wuxis eGevprmara THS | Kata odpKa noovijs eveKa kal THs edmidos Ths Umép Ta’TNS TUVETTavaL Kal Tay Eivat KEvOY epyov, 3 py eis rovto katareiver (Plut. Mf. 1125 B), ws kal exdpny Kal eOpacuvapny, ote Euabov map °Emtxovpov opOas yaortpt xapitecOa (Plut. Jf, 1098 ©), oddev Set cate tous “EdAnvas, ovS’ emt aodhia orepavev map’ avtav tvyxavew, GAN eoOiew kal rive olor, & Tysdkpates, G3AaB@s TH yaoTpl Kai Kexapiopevws Plut. A, 1125 p, also Plut. If, 1087, 1108, and Hirzel p. 165, Tuse. v 27, Fin. 1 92.
collega sapientiae: so Fn. 11 92 paene alter Epicurus. The two were often represented in a double bust.
dubitet—metiri: ‘hesitates to measure by the standard of the belly’, cf. Demosth. Cor. p. 324 7H yaorpt petpodrytes Kal Tots aioyiotous thy evdat- poviav. Allen quotes Varro ap. Non. 1 273 quibus modulus est vitae culina. Dubito in this sense is generally followed by the Inf. in a negative sentence, more rarely in a positive sentence ; Draeg. (§ 424 8 d) cites Curtius as the earliest instance of the latter, but, besides the present passage, Reid on Lael. 1 quotes Sall. Cat. 15. [See also Att. x 3a, venire dubitarint quoted by G. Miiller, Progr. d. Gymnas. zu Gorlitz 1878. R.]
ne beatos quidem : ‘wanting in happiness also’ (as well as pleasure), Cio ia:
Ch. xr1 $114. abundantem bonis: cf. omnibus bonis afluens § 50.
cogitat: on the sing. following pl. vacant cf. § 50 Balbe soletis n.
mihi pulchre est: a colloquial phrase ‘how jolly this is!’ cf Mur. 26 practor interea, ne pulchrum se ac beatum putaret, Hor. Sat. 11 8 18 quecs cenantibus una pulchre fuerit tibi, nosse laboro; Allen cites Mart. x11 17 9, Catull. xx11 5. The reference is to § 51.