[299] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. xxxiii.
[300] De Divinatione, lib. i., ca. xviii.
[301] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xlvii.
[302] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. i.
[303] Horace, Ep., lib. ii., ca. i.:
"Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued, And Rome grew polished who till then was rude." Conington's Translation.
[304] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. ii.
[305] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. li.
[306] The story of Simon Du Bos and his MS. has been first told to me by Mr. Tyrell in his first volume of the Correspondence of Cicero, p. 88. That a man should have been such a scholar, and yet such a liar, and should have gone to his long account content with the feeling that he had cheated the world by a fictitious MS., when his erudition, if declared, would have given him a scholar's fame, is marvellous. Perhaps he intended to be discovered. I, for one, should not have heard of Bosius but for his lie.
[307] De Republica, lib. iii. It is useless to give the references here. It is all fragmentary, and has been divided differently as new information has been obtained.