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minute work in ivory, and especially for a chariot which a fly covered with its wings, and a ship<br />
which the wings <strong>of</strong> a bee concealed. See Plin. Nat. Hist. VII. 21, XXXVI. 5.<br />
§121. Posse: n. on I. 29. Strato: R. and P. 331. Sed cum: sed <strong>of</strong>ten marks a very slight contrast,<br />
there is no need to read et, as Halm. Asperis ... corporibus: cf. fragm. 28 <strong>of</strong> the Ac. Post., also<br />
N.D. I. 66. Somnia: so N.D. I. 18 miracula non disserentium philosophorum sed somniantium, ib.<br />
I. 42 non philosophorum iudicia sed delirantium somnia, also ib. I. 66 flagitia Democriti.<br />
Docentis: giving pro<strong>of</strong>. Optantis: Guietus humorously conj. potantis, Durand oscitantis (cf. N.D.<br />
I. 72), others opinantis. That the text is sound however may be seen from T.D. II. 30 optare hoc<br />
quidem est non docere, De Fato 46, N.D. I. 19 optata magis quam inventa, ib. III. 12 doceas<br />
oportet nec pr<strong>of</strong>eras; cf. also Orat. 59 vocis bonitas optanda est, non est enim in nobis, i.e. a<br />
good voice is a thing to be prayed for, and not to be got by exertion. There is a similar Greek<br />
proverb, e??? µa???? ? a???e?a, in Sext. P.H. VIII. 353. Magno opere: Hermann wishes to read<br />
onere. The phrase magnum onus is indeed common (cf. De Or. I. 116), but magnum opus, in the<br />
sense <strong>of</strong> "a great task," is equally so, cf. T.D. III. 79, 84, Orat. 75. Modo hoc modo illud: 134.<br />
§122. Latent ista: see n. on fragm. 29 <strong>of</strong> the Ac. Post.; for latent cf. I. 45. Aug. Cont. Ac. II. 12,<br />
III. 1 imitates this passage. Circumfusa: cf. I. 44, and 46 <strong>of</strong> this book. Medici: cf. T.D. I. 46<br />
Viderentur: a genuine passive, cf. 25, 39, 81. Empirici: a school <strong>of</strong> physicians so called. Ut ...<br />
mutentur: exactly the same answer was made recently to Pr<strong>of</strong>. Huxley's speculations on<br />
protoplasm; he was said to have assumed that the living protoplasm would have the same<br />
properties as the dead. Media pendeat: cf. N.D. II. 98, De Or. III. 178.<br />
§123. Habitari ait: for this edd. qu. Lactant. Inst. III. 23, 12. Portenta: "monstrosities these," cf.<br />
D.F. IV. 70. Iurare: cf. 116. Neque ego, etc.: see fragm. 30 <strong>of</strong> Ac. Post. ??t?p?da?: this doctrine<br />
appears in Philolaus (see Plut. Plac. Phil. III. 11 qu. R. and P. 75), who give the name <strong>of</strong> a?t????<br />
? to the opposite side <strong>of</strong> the world. Diog. VIII. 26 (with which passage cf. Stob. Phys. XV. 7)<br />
mentions the theory as Pythagorean, but in another passage (III. 24) says that Plato first invented<br />
the name. The word a?t?p??? seems to occur first in Plat. Tim. 63 A. The existence <strong>of</strong> a?t?p?<br />
de?; was <strong>of</strong> course bound up with the doctrine that the universe or the world is a globe (which is<br />
held by Plat. in the Tim. and by the Stoics, see Stob. Phys. XV. 6, Diog. VII. 140), hence the early<br />
Christian writers attack the two ideas together as unscriptural. Cf. esp Aug. De Civ. Dei XVI. 9.<br />
Hicetas: he was followed by Heraclides Ponticus and some Pythagoreans. Sext. A.M. X. 174<br />
speaks <strong>of</strong> the followers <strong>of</strong> Aristarchus the mathematician as holding the same doctrine. It seems<br />
also to be found in Philolaus, see R. and P. 75. Theophrastus: who wrote much on the history <strong>of</strong><br />
philosophy, see R. and P. 328. Platonem: the words <strong>of</strong> Plato (Tim. 40 B) are ??? de t??f?? µe? ?<br />
?µete?a?, e????µe??? de pe?? t?? d?a pa?t?? p???? tetaµe???. Quid tu, Epicure: the<br />
connection is that Cic., having given the crotchets <strong>of</strong> other philosophers about f?s???, proceeds<br />
to give the peculiar crotchet <strong>of</strong> Epic. Putas solem ... tantum: a hard passage. Egone? ne bis is the<br />
em. <strong>of</strong> Lamb. for MSS. egone vobis, and is approved by Madv., who thus explains it (Em. 185)<br />
"cum interrogatum esset num tantulum (quasi pedalem 82) solem esse putaret, Epic. non<br />
praecise definit (tantum enim esse censebat quantus videretur vel paulo aut maiorem aut<br />
minorem) sed latius circumscribit, ne bis quidem tantum esse, sed inter pedalem magnitudinem<br />
et bipedalem". (D.F. I. 20) This explanation though not quite satisfactory is the best yet given.<br />
Epicurus' absurdity is by Cic. brought into strong relief by stating the outside limit to which Epic.<br />
was prepared to go in estimating the sun's size, i.e. twice the apparent size. Ne ... quidem may<br />
possibly appear strange, cf. however ne maiorem quidem in 82. Aristo Chius: for this doctrine <strong>of</strong><br />
his see R. and P. 358.<br />
§124. Quid sit animus: an enumeration <strong>of</strong> the different ancient theories is given in T.D. I. 18—22,<br />
and by Sext. A.M. VII. 113, who also speaks in P.H. II. 31 <strong>of</strong> the p???? ?a? a????t?? µa??<br />
concerning the soul. In P.H. II. 57 he says G????a? ??de d?a???a? e??a? f?s?. Dicaearcho:<br />
T.D. I. 21. Tres partis: in Plato's Republic. Ignis: Zeno's opinion, T.D. I. 19. Animam: ib. I. 19.<br />
Sanguis: Empodocles, as in T.D. I. 19 where his famous line ?a?µa ?a? a????p??? pe???a?d???<br />
est? ???µa is translated, see R. and P. 124. Ut Xenocrates: some edd. read Xenocrati, but cf. I.<br />
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