diphthong [Greek: ei] by _i_ not e. This Aristo was a Peripatetic. --
PARUM ... AUCTORITATIS: observe how often Cicero takes trouble to separate
words which are, grammatically, closely connected. So above, _omnis ...
molestias_; 7 _multorum ... senectutem_; 9 _mirificos ... fructus_; 21
_civium ... nomina_; 33 _minus ... virium_; 53 _multo ... fecundior_; etc.
etc. See also n. on 15 _quam sit iusta_. A. 344, _c_, _d_, _e_; H. 561,
III. -- ESSET: condition omitted. A. 311; G. 602; H. 510. -- MAIOREM
AUCTORITATEM: cf. Lael. 4. -- APUD QUEM: 'at whose house'; so 55 _a me_,
'from my house'. A. 153; G. 417; H. 446, n. 4. -- LAELIUM ... SCIPIONEM:
see Introd. -- FACIMUS ADMIRANTIS: 'we represent as expressing
astonishment'. For _facere_, in this sense, Cic. more often uses _inducere_
'to bring on the stage', as in Lael. 4 _Catonem induxi senem disputantem_.
Cf. however 54 _Homerus Laerten colentem agrum facit_; also Brut. 218;
Orat. 85. Instead of _facimus_ we might have expected either _fecimus_ to
correspond with _misimus_ and _tribuimus_ above, or _faciemus_ to
correspond with _videbitur_ below. On the use of the participle see A. 292,
_q_; G. 536; H 535, I. 4. -- ERUDITIUS DISPUTARE: Cic. not infrequently in
his dialogues makes people talk with more learning than they really
possessed. He several times confesses this as regards Lucullus and Catulus
in the Academica, and as regards Antonius in the De Oratore. -- FERAT:
subjunctive because embodying the sentiment of Laelius and Scipio. Roby,
1744; Madvig, 357; H. 516, II. -- SUIS LIBRIS etc.: for the allusions here
to Cato's life, works, and opinions see Introd. -- QUID OPUS EST PLURA?
_sc. dicere_. cf. the elliptic phrases _quid multa? sc. dicam_ in 78; also
below, 10 _praeclare_. A 206, _c_; H. 368, 3, n. 2.

4. SAEPE NUMERO SOLEO: 'it is my frequent custom'. _Numero_ is literally
'by the count or reckoning', and in _saepe numero_ had originally the same
force as in _quadraginta numero_ and the like; but the phrase came to be
used merely as a slight strengthening of _saepe_. -- CUM HOC ... CUM
CETERARUM: the use of _cum_ in different senses in the same clause, which
seems awkward, is not uncommon; cf. below, 67. The spelling _quum_ was
certainly not used by Cicero, and probably by no other Latin writer of the
best period. H. 311, foot-note 4. It is worth remarking that _cum_ the
conjunction and _cum_ the preposition, though spelt alike, are by origin
quite distinct. The fo