Goddess excellently bright.—Ode to the Moon.
[150] Olympias was the mother of Alexander.
[151] Venus is here said to be one of the names of Diana, because ad res omnes veniret; but she is not supposed to be the same as the mother of Cupid.
[152] Here is a mistake, as Fulvius Ursinus observes; for the discourse seems to be continued in one day, as appears from the beginning of this book. This may be an inadvertency of Cicero.
[153] The senate of Athens was so called from the words Ἄρειος Πάγος, the Village, some say the Hill, of Mars.
[154] Epicurus.
[155] The Stoics.
[156] By nulla cohærendi natura—if it is the right, as it is the common reading—Cicero must mean the same as by nulla crescendi natura, or coalescendi, either of which Lambinus proposes; for, as the same learned critic well observes, is there not a cohesion of parts in a clod, or in a piece of stone? Our learned Walker proposes sola cohærendi natura, which mends the sense very much; and I wish he had the authority of any copy for it.
[157] Nasica Scipio, the censor, is said to have been the first who made a water-clock in Rome.
[158] The Epicureans.