quid mali datis: 'what mischief you cause' (=mali quid affert ista sententia? Tusc. I 82), a colloquial expression, so haut paternum istuc dedisti Ter. Adelph. III 4 4, and malum dare frequently.

§ 122. in imbecillitate ponitis. Cf. Diog. L. x 77 ov yàp ovμḍwvovoi πραγματείαι καὶ φροντίδες καὶ ὀργαὶ καὶ χάριτες μακαριότητι, ἀλλ' ἀσθενείᾳ καὶ φόβῳ καὶ προσδεήσει τῶν πλησίον ταῦτα γίνεται, Lael. 29 quam (benevolentiam) si qui putant ab imbecillitate proficisci, ut sit per quem assequatur quod quisque desideret, humilem sane relinquunt et minime generosum, ut ita dicam, ortum amicitiae.

vim et naturam deorum: little more than a periphrasis for Tò béîov as in § 32, cf. Nägelsb. Stil. § 3 2 d, Beier on Off. 1 18 honesti naturam vimque; 'setting aside the Gods and their attributes'.

ne homines quidem: 'do you think that even in the case of men it is true, that they would have been devoid of kindness, if it had not been for their weakness?'

nisi essent-futuros fuisse: orat. obl. for the direct nisi essent—fuissent, see Roby § 1784, Madv. 381, 409.

ista amicitia: on the attraction (ista for istud) cf. § 67.

mercatura-suarum. Cf. Zeller Stoics, p. 465 tr., on the Epicurean view of friendship, who quotes Ep. ap. Diog. L. x 120 tǹv piλíav dià ràs χρείας γίνεσθαι, δεῖν μέντοι προκατάρχεσθαι, συνίστασθαι δὲ αὐτὴν κατὰ κοιvwvíav év taîs ýdovaîs, Fin. 1 66, 11 78. In the parallel passage of Lael. 31, we read neque enim beneficium feneramur sed natura propensi ad liberalitatem sumus, where Seyffert quotes Fin. II 117 (kindness done from interested motives is a feneratio not a beneficium), Sen. Ep. 9 ista, quam tu describis, negotiatio est, non amicitia. On the change of person, where the subject is indefinite (nos—suarum), see § 84 sibi displicere.

§ 123. at etiam liber est: recurring to § 115.

ludimur: cf. § 113, III 3.

non tam faceto: cf. 11 46 hic quam volet Ep. jocetur, homo non aptissimus ad jocandum, 11 74 salem istum, quo caret vestra natio, irridendis nobis nolitote consumere foll., Div. 11 40 deos jocandi causa induxit perlucidos.

familiaris—Posidonius. He was sent as ambassador from Rhodes to Rome B.C. 86; Cic. attended his lectures at Rhodes B.C. 78, where Pompey also visited him on two occasions. Cic. in vain urged him to write a panegyric on his consulship. The fragments have been collected by Bake.

invidiae detestandae: 'deprecating odium'. So Cat. 1 27 ut a me patriae querimoniam detester et deprecer, lit. 'to call the Gods to avert'.

tam desipiens fuisset. Strictly speaking this should have been expressed in the Inf. as a part of the argument of P. See Madv. Fin. III 50. exilem: emaciated'.

omnino: summing up, 'in a word'.

§ 124. valeat: 'goodbye to him', cf. Ter. Andr. Iv 2 13 valeant qui inter nos discidium volunt, Hor. Ep. II 1 180 valeat res ludicra. Cic. uses the Greek equivalent Att. VIII 8 at illa tibi, ñoλλà xaipei tậ kadậ dicens, pergit Brundisium, so Fam. VII 33 multam salutem et foro dicam et curiae.

quid enim-propitius sit: 'for why should I offer the usual prayer?' Cf. the formula in Cato R. R. 141 Mars pater, te precor quaesoque, uti sies volens propitius mihi domo familiaeque nostrae.

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.