xviii.

[301] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xlvii.

[302] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. i.

[303] Horace, Ep., lib. ii., ca. i.:

"Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued.
And Rome grew polished who till then was rude."

CONINGTON'S Translation.

[304] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. ii.

[305] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. li.

[306] The story of Simon Du Bos and his MS. has been first
told to me by Mr. Tyrell in his first volume of the
Correspondence of Cicero, p. 88. That a man should have been
such a scholar, and yet such a liar, and should have gone to
his long account content with the feeling that he had
cheated the world by a fictitious MS., when his erudition,
if declared, would have given him a scholar's fame, is
marvellous. Perhaps he intended to be discovered. I, for
one, should not have heard of Bosius but for his lie.

[307] De Republica, lib. iii. It is useless to give the
references here. It is all fragmentary, and has been divided
differently as new information has been obtained.

[308] De Legibus, lib. i., ca. vii.

[309] De Legibus, lib. i., ca. x.

[310] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xviii.

[311] De Legibus, lib. iii., ca. ix., x.

[312] Ibid., lib. iii., xvii.

[313] De Senectute, ca. ix.

[314] Ibid., ca. x.

[315] Ibid., ca. xi.

[316] Ibid., ca. xviii.

[317] Ibid., ca. xxi.

[318] De Amicitia, ca. xix.

[319] De Officiis, lib. ii., ca. v.

[320] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xvii.

[321] De Officiis, lib. i., ca. xxix: "Suppeditant autem et
campus noster et studia venandi, honesta exempla ludendi."
The passage is quoted here as an antidote to that extracted
some time since from one of his letters, which has been used
to show that hunting was no occupation for a "polite
man"--as he, Cicero, had disapproved of Pompey's slaughter
of animals on his new stage.

[322] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xxxi.

[323] De Officiis, lib. i., ca. xxxvi. It is impossible not
to be reminded by this passage of Lord Chesterfield's
letters to his son, written with the same object; but we can
see at once that the Roman desired in his son a much higher
type of bearing than the Englishman. The following is the
advice given by the Englishman: "A thousand little things,
not separately to be defined, conspire to form these
graces--this 'je ne sais quoi' that always pleases. A pretty
person; genteel motions; a proper degree