ys, the other two being the
adjacent islands of Melos and Siphnus (Herodotus, 8, 46). -- IURGIO:
_iurgium_ is a quarrel which does not go beyond words; _rixa_ a quarrel
where the disputants come to blows. -- SI EGO: but further on, _tu si_. The
contrast would certainly be more perfect if _ego si_ were read, as has been
proposed, in place of _si ego_. -- QUOD EODEM MODO ... DICI: Cic. commonly
says _quod ita dicendum_ and the like; see n. on 35 _quod ni ita fuisset_.
Cato means that just as Themistocles' success was due to two things, his
own character and his good fortune, so two things are necessary to make old
age endurable, viz. moderate fortune and wisdom. He then in 9 insists that
of these two conditions wisdom is far the more important. -- NEC ... LEVIS
... NEC ... NON GRAVIS: notice the chiasmus.

9. OMNINO: here = [Greek: pantapasi] 'undoubtedly', in a strongly
affirmative sense, as in 76; but in 28 (where see n.) it is concessive. --
CUM DIU MULTUMQUE VIXERIS: literally 'when you have lived long and much',
_i.e._ when you have not only had a long life but have done a great deal in
the course of it. The phrases _diu multumque, multum et diu_ are common in
Cic., as below, 38; Acad. 1, 4; Div. 2, 1; Off 1, 118; Leg. Agr. 2, 88; De
Or. 1, 152. For mood see A. 309, a; H. 518, 2. -- ECFERUNT: _ecferunt_ for
_efferunt_ (_ec_ = _ex_ = _ecs_; so [Greek: ek] = [Greek: ex] = [Greek:
eks]) was old-fashioned in Cicero's time, but forms of the sort, as below,
39 _ecfrenate_, according to the evidence of the best MSS., occur in a good
many passages. See Neue, Formenlehre, Vol. 2, pp. 766 seq., ed. 2. --
NUMQUAM DESERUNT: the omission of the object after _deserunt_ is not
common. With the general sense of this passage cf. Arch. 16 _litterarum
studia adulescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant,
adversis perfugium ac solarium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt
foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur._

P. 5. -- 10. Q. MAXIMUM: the famous Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Ovicula
Cunctator, hero of the Second Punic War. -- EUM ... RECEPIT: this clause
has often been suspected to be an insertion of the writers of MSS. But (1)
the capture of Tarentum in 209 B.C. was Fabius' crowning achievement, and
'captor of Tarentum' was often added to his name as a title of honor; see
De Orat. 2, 273; and (2) there were several other persons of distinction
bearing the name Q. Maximus about the same time, so that