The usual progression was αἴσθησις (sensus), φαντασία (species, “external impression”), συγκατάθεσις (adsensus), and κατάληψις (comprehensio). See Letter XCV, paragraph 29, endnote 838. ↩
This problem is discussed from another angle in Letter LVIII, paragraph 12. ↩
I.e., the virtues. ↩
Cleanthes, Frag. 525 von Arnim; Chrysippus, Frag. 836 von Arnim. The former would seem to be more in accord with general Stoic views. ↩
Caecilianum (the reading of the later MSS.) would refer to Statius Caecilius, the comic writer of the second century BC. Caelianum (B and A) would indicate M. Caelius Rufus, the orator and contemporary of Cicero and Catullus. ↩
334–330 BC. ↩
See Letter XCIV, paragraph 29 f., and notes. ↩
E.g., the execution of Parmenio in Media and the murder of Cleitus in Samarkand. ↩
οῖος ὁ βίος, τοιοῦτος καὶ ὁ λόγος. The saying is referred to Socrates by Cicero (Tusculanae Disputationes V 47). ↩
I.e., that inborn quality which is compounded of character and intelligence. ↩
Cf. Suetonius, Augustus 86, where the Emperor Maecenatem suum, cuius “myrobrechis,” ut ait, “cincinnos” (“unguent-dripping curls” (Rolfe)) usque quaque persequitur et imitando per iocum irridet. Augustus here refers especially to the style of Maecenas as a writer. ↩
Terentia. For her charms see Horace, Odes II 12; for her faults see De Providentia III 10, where Seneca calls her “petulant.” ↩
Maecenas, Frag. 11 Lunderstedt. ↩
Instead of properly girt up—a mark of slackness. ↩
For a similar mark of slovenliness, in Pompey’s freedman Demetrius, see Plutarch, Pompey, XL 4. ↩
I.e., often repulsed by his wife Terentia, and then restored to grace. ↩
E.g., in the Treaty of Brundisium (37 BC), and often during the Triumvirate. ↩
I.e., the “ring” of onlookers, the “pit.” ↩
Fifth century BC. ↩
I.e., from the second and first centuries BC, back to the third century. ↩
The latter a reasonable mark of good breeding, the former an ostentatious bit of effeminacy. Summers cites Ovid, Ars Amatoria I 506 “don’t rub your legs smooth with the tight-scraping pumice stone.” ↩
As Cicero (see Letter XL, paragraph 7) was an example of the rhythmical in style, so Pollio is the representative of the “bumpy” (salebrosa) manner (Letter C, paragraph 4). ↩
Flor. 40 BC. ↩
For these Sallust fragments see the edition of Kritz, Nos. 33, Jugurtha 37. 4, and 42; for Arruntius see H. Peter, Frag. Hist. Rom. II pp. 41 f. ↩
Literally, “created,” “made.” ↩
“Brought to pass flight for our men”; “Hiero, king of the Syracusans brought about war”; “The news brought the men of Panormus” (now Palermo, Sicily) “to the point of surrendering to the Romans.” ↩
“Brought to pass flight for our men”; “Hiero, king of the Syracusans brought about war”; “The news brought the men of Panormus” (now Palermo, Sicily) “to the point of surrendering to the Romans.” ↩
“Brought to pass flight for our men”; “Hiero, king of the Syracusans brought about war”; “The news brought the men of Panormus” (now Palermo, Sicily) “to the point of surrendering to the Romans.” ↩
“Amid the wintry waters”; “The storm suddenly grew wintry”; “The whole year was like winter”; “Then he dispatched sixty transports of light draught besides the soldiers and the necessary sailors amid a wintry storm.” ↩
“Amid the wintry waters”; “The storm suddenly grew wintry”; “The whole year was like winter”; “Then he dispatched sixty transports of light draught besides the soldiers and the necessary sailors amid a wintry storm.” ↩
“Amid the wintry waters”; “The storm suddenly grew wintry”; “The whole year was like winter”; “Then he dispatched sixty transports of light draught besides the soldiers and the necessary sailors amid a wintry storm.” ↩
“Amid the wintry waters”; “The storm suddenly grew wintry”; “The whole year was like winter”; “Then he dispatched sixty transports of light draught besides the soldiers and the necessary sailors amid a wintry storm.” ↩
The peculiarity here is the use of the plural instead of the singular form. “Amid civil war he seeks reminders of justice and virtue.” ↩
Virgil, Georgics IV 212 f. ↩
Elsewhere (Letters LXXVI, paragraph 1 and LXXXVII, paragraph 7) called trossuli, “fops.” ↩
Aeneid I 327 ff. ↩
Frag. 372 von Arnim. ↩
Ovid, Metamorphoses II 1 f. ↩
Ovid, Metamorphoses II 107 ff. ↩
Cf. Nauck, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta adesp. 181. 1 and 461. ↩
Cf. Nauck, Eurip. Danaë, Frag. 324, and Hense’s note (ed. of 1914, p. 559). ↩
A play on the compositio of rhetoric. ↩
For a discussion of ἀπάθεια see Letters IX, paragraph 2 ff. and LXXXV, paragraph 3 ff. ↩
Frag. 56 Fowler. ↩
Literally, “out of our possession” (from mancipium, “ownership”). ↩
For this sort of discussion see Letter
