once in four years. The story that
follows is told in almost the same words by Val. Max. 4, 5, ext. 2.

P. 27. -- QUI: at this point the _oratio obliqua_ is broken off, but it is
resumed in the next sentence, _dixisse_ being dependent on _proditum est_.
-- LEGATI CUM ESSENT: 'being ambassadors'. -- ILLI: 'in his honor'. --
SESSUM RECEPISSE: Val. Max. uses the same phrase; cf. Fam. 10, 32, 2
_sessum deducere_; N.D. 3, 74 _sessum ire_.

64. PLAUSUS MULTIPLEX: cf. Verg. Aen. 1, 747 _ingeminant plausu_. Cic.
generally says _plausus maximus_. -- FACERE NOLLE: cf. the well-known
saying of Demosthenes, Olynth. 3, Sec. 3 [Greek: pepeismai gar ta pleio ton
pragmaton hymas ekpepheugenai toi me boulesthai ta deonta poiein, e toi me
synienai]. -- COLLEGIO: the college or board of augurs to which Cato
belonged. In his time there were nine members; later the number was
increased. -- ANTECEDIT: _sc. alios_. -- SENTENTIAE PRINCIPATUM:
'precedence in debate'. Meissner quotes Verr. 4, 142 _ut quisque aetate et
honore antecedit, ita primus solet sua sponte dicere itaque a ceteris ei
conceditur_. -- HONORE: _i.e._ as regards office, past or present. -- QUI
... SUNT: actual praetors or consuls. -- COMPARANDAE: n. on 50. -- FABULAM
AETATIS: cf. 5, 70, 85. The comparison of life to a play, and mankind to
the players, is common in all literature; _e.g._ 'All the world's a stage,
etc.'. When Augustus was on his deathbed he asked his friends _ecquid eis
videretur mimum vitae commode transegisse_ (Suet. Aug. 99); cf. Gay's
epitaph, 'Life's a jest, etc.'. -- CORRUISSE: _i.e._ through fatigue; cf.
_defetigationem_ in 85.

65. AT: see n. on 21. -- MORUM: cf. 7 _in moribus est culpa, non in
aetate_. -- EA VITIA: _i.e. ea alia vitia_. -- HABENT etc.: cf. Thucyd. 3,
44 [Greek: echontes ti syngnomes]. -- NON ... VIDEATUR: 'not well grounded
indeed, but such as it may seem possible to allow'. _Ille_ is often used
with _quidem_ in making concessions where the English idiom requires no
pronoun. Roby, 2259; Madvig, 489, _b_; Kennedy, 65, n. 2; A. 151, _e_; G.
292, Rem. 4; H. 450, 4, n. 2. -- CONTEMNI ... DESPICI: see n. on 43 _spreta
et contempta_. -- MORIBUS BONIS ET ARTIBUS: for the order of the words cf.
n. on 1 _animi tui_. -- IN VITA: 'in everyday life' -- ADELPHIS: _Adelphi_
= [Greek: adelphoi], The Brothers; this play of Terence is still extant. --
DIRITAS: 'harshness of temper'; but Suet. Tib. 21 has _diritas morum_, and
Varro _scena quem senem La