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M. Tullii Ciceronis Laelius De Amicitia, Ed. by A. Sidgwick
M Tullii Ciceronis Laelius De Amicitia Ed by A Sidgwick Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES 1. For Mucius and I/aelius, sec Introduction, TheScipionic Circle. memoriter, 'with clear memory.' That this is always the meaning of memoriter (and ... more »not simply ' by heart' as opposed to ex seripto, as dictionaries say) has been conclusively shown by Madvig, Fin. i. x. 34. Indeed, memor meaning ' mindful, ' the adverb naturally has this sense. ita eram deductus ut, [my father] ' had made such a point of introducing me to :' the word dutiucere means to ' take to see,' and here he means that he commended the young man to the old augur, ace. the Roman custom, that he might gain by his society. Scaevolam, see Introduction. sumpta virili toga, boys at Rome wore the white woollen toga with purple border (praetexta) : after the age of about 16 (the time was not apparently fixed by law) they took the ' man's toga,' pure white, without border, and were considered grown up. quoad possem, subjunctive, because dependent on the other consecutive subj. diseedercm. This subj. may always be used when the dependent clause is closely attached to the principal, as part of the consequence. See Scheme. breviter et commode dicta, ' terse and apt sayings.' poutificem Scaevolam, the younger Q. Mucius Scaevola, prob. son of the Augur's cousin. He was a man of great force and excellence of character, an illustrious orator and jurisconsult : ' the founder,' says Mommsen (Hist. Rome iii. 475], ' of the systematic study of the law.' me contuli, ' I attached myself to :' being now a man, he chose his own society and uses a different word. alias, (' I will speak) at another time :' the verb being readily understood. 2. cum saepe multa, tum memini : cum and turn often thus used without any reference to time, simply equivalent to 'both . . and,' 'not only . . but also.' ' ...« less