CHAPTER XI.
[1] Au vos consulere scitis, consulem facere nescitis? See Teuffel, R. L. § 130, 6.
[2] Lael. i. His character generally is given, Brut. xxvi. 102.
[3] Q. Mucius Scaevola, Pontifex, son of Publius, nephew of Q. Mucius Scaevola, Augur.
[4] Quoted by Teuffel, § 141, 2.
[5] Dict. Biog.
[6] See De Or. i. 53, 229.
[7] Ep. ii. 2, 89.
[8] ii. 4, 42.
[9] See Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 149, § 4.
[10] Compare Lucr. i. 633. Magis inter inanes quamde gravis inter Graios qui vera requirunt.
[11] Brut. lvi. 207.
[12] De Or. ii. 37.
[13] "egertika noaeseos."—Plat. Rep. Bk. iv.
[14] apatheia, ataraxia.
[15] epistaemae and doxa, so often opposed in Plato and Aristotle.
[16] Sext. Emp. Pyrrh. Hyp. i. 234. (Arkesilaos) kata men to procheiron pyrroneios ephaineto einai kata de taen alaetheian dogmatikos aen. So Bacon: Academia nova Acatalepsiam dogmatizavit.
[17] That is, all practically considered indifference or insensibility to be the thing best worth striving after.
[18] Cic. Tusc. iv. 3.
[19] Contrast the indifference of the vulgar for the tougher parts of the system. Lucr. "Haec ratio Durior esse videtur … retroque volgus abhorret ab hac."
[20] See a fuller account of this system under Lucretius.