[BE] As a Peripatetic, Cratippus insisted that there was natural good as well as moral good; thus health, honour, etc., were good and worth seeking for their own sake, though in less degree than virtue. But the Stoics (and Cicero is now speaking as a Stoic) called all those other blessings not "good" nor "worth seeking for their own sake," but "indifferent."
[BF] With this he waves aside, without even the honour of mentioning them, the Epicureans, Cyrenaics, etc.
[BG] Because he was a Stoic.
[BH] Romulus.
[BI] Remus.
[BJ] I.e., whether he be god or man.
[BK] The Cilician pirates had been crushed by Pompey and settled at Soli (Pompeiopolis). They gathered strength again during the distractions of the civil wars, and Antony is even said to have sought their aid in the war against Brutus and Cassius.
Marseilles and King Deiotarus of Armenia had supported Pompey and in consequence were made tributary by Caesar's party.
[BM] The shame was that states enjoying the rights of Roman citizenship should need a patron to protect their interests in the Roman capital.