[93] Fundamental doctrines.
[94] That is, the zodiac.
[95] The moon, as well as the sun, is indeed in the zodiac, but she does not measure the same course in a month. She moves in another line of the zodiac nearer the earth.
[96] According to the doctrines of Epicurus, none of these bodies themselves are clearly seen, but simulacra ex corporibus effluentia.
[97] Epicurus taught his disciples in a garden.
[98] By the word Deus, as often used by our author, we are to understand all the Gods in that theology then treated of, and not a single personal Deity.
[99] The best commentators on this passage agree that Cicero does not mean that Aristotle affirmed that there was no such person as Orpheus, but that there was no such poet, and that the verse called Orphic was said to be the invention of another. The passage of Aristotle to which Cicero here alludes has, as Dr. Davis observes, been long lost.
[100] A just proportion between the different sorts of beings.
[101] Some give quos non pudeat earum Epicuri vocum; but the best copies have not non; nor would it be consistent with Cotta to say quos non pudeat, for he throughout represents Velleius as a perfect Epicurean in every article.
[102] His country was Abdera, the natives of which were remarkable for their stupidity.