BOOK I CH, XLIr § 119. 225

ad rationem revocatis: ‘rationalized’, ‘reduced to philosophy’, cf. §§ 28, 66, 69, 73, 93, 107.
Ch. xm § 120. Democritus: cf. §§ 29,1176. His fragments have been edited by Mullach.
vir magnus: so Ac. 1173 guem cumeo conferre possumus non modo tnge- nii magnitudine sed etiam animi? where see Reid.
hortulos irrigavit: playing on the word, cf. § 93 and, for the metaphor, Ac. 1 8 (I recommend my friends to study the Greek philosophers them- selves) ut ea a fontibus potius hauriant quam rivulos consectentur.
nutare: ‘to waver’, ‘give an uncertain sound’, cf. Fin. 1 6 nunc autem dico ipsum Epicurum nescire (quid sit voluptas) in eoque nutare.
tum enim censet: see Sext. Emp. 1x 19 Any. d€ eldwda twa dynow €umedaterv trois avOporots Kal ToUTwY Ta pev elvat dyaborrad, Ta SE KakoTroLd. évOev kai evyerar evdoyov! tuxeiv cidodov. eivar S€ TadTa peydda Te kal Ureppeyebn, kat SvapOapra pev, ovK adGapra dé, mpoonpaivew re Ta peAdovTAa trois avOparrois, Oewpovpeva kai Povas aduévra, and ib. 42 76 dé eidS@da elvat €v T@ Tepiexovte Umrephuh Kal dvOpwroeideis exovra poppis mavrehds €ore Svomapddexrov. Cf. Plut. MW. 361 of the daemons of Xenocrates. ‘It will be obvious’ (says Mosheim in his excellent note on Cudworth 1 p. 644) ‘from a comparison of these passages, that one and the same opinion of Dem. is here broken up into several tenets by C. Perhaps here, as in other cases, he has designedly perverted the opinion of this philosopher in order with better effect to confute him’. The principia mentis are the fiery particles of which soul is composed; these coalesce and constitute the tmagines which float around us, and which, when they enter into our consciousness (itself composed of the same divine particles), are recognized as divinities. Democritus attributed to them vast size, a lengthened but not everlasting existence (see Plut. Def: Or. p. 415 6 d€ ‘Hoiodos oterat kat mepodots Tat xpovwv ylyverOat Trois Saipoot tas Tedevtas, thus the Naiad’s life is ten times as long as that of the phoenix, which is itself nine times that of the raven), benignant or malignant influence, in order to agree with the popular theology: and for the same reason, we may suppose, he considered them to be perceptible by the lower animals (as Athene by the dogs in the Odyssey), cf. Clem. Strom. v 590 ©, ra yap adra remoinker eidoda tots avOpwros mpoonintovta Kal Tois ddoyos (dos do ths Oeias ovcias.
mundum complectantur. This absurd exaggeration probably arose from a careless reading of the Gr. quoted above, év 76 mepréyovre Ureppui.
sint—soleant. Sch. (Opuse. 111 308, 368), in accordance with Hein- dorf’s suggestion, changed the Ind. of the mss for the Subj., stating an Opinion, not a fact, and has been followed by the later edd.
animantes: for the adjectival use cf. §§ 23, 123, m 22, m1 11.
patria Democriti. Abdera in Thrace had a reputation like our Gotham, cf. Juv. x 50 (Dem.) cujus prudentia monstrat | summos posse
1 Al. evddyxwv. .