MSS.) The general sense would then be
"Having introduced philosophy into that kind of literature which the
unlearned read, I proceeded to introduce it into that which the learned
read." _Laudationibus_: [Greek: logois epitaphiois], cf. _Ad Att._ XIII. 48
where Varro's are mentioned. _+Philosophe scribere_: the MSS. all give
_philosophie_. Klotz has _philosophiam_, which is demonstrably wrong,
_physica_, _musica_ etc. _scribere_ may be said, but not _physicam_,
_musicam_ etc. _scribere_. The one passage formerly quoted to justify the
phrase _philosophiam scribere_ is now altered in the best texts (_T.D._ V.
121, where see Tischer). Goer. reads _philosophiae scribere_; his
explanation is, as Orelli gently says, "vix Latina." I can scarcely think
Halm's _philosophe_ to be right, the word occurs nowhere else, and Cic.
almost condemns it by his use of the Greek [Greek: philosophos] (_Ad Att._
XIII. 20). In older Greek the adverb does not appear, nor is [Greek:
philosophos] used as an adjective much, yet Cic. uses _philosophus_
adjectivally in _T.D._ V. 121, _Cat. Mai._ 22, _N.D._ III. 23, just as he
uses _tyrannus_ (_De Rep._ III. 45), and _anapaestus_ (_T.D._ III. 57)
Might we not read _philosophis_, in the dative, which only requires the
alteration of a single letter from the MSS. reading? The meaning would then
be "to write _for_ philosophers," which would agree with my emendation
_cum_ for _quo_ above. _Philosophice_ would be a tempting alteration, but
that the word [Greek: philosophikos] is not Greek, nor do _philosophicus_,
_philosophice_ occur till very late Latin times. _Si modo id consecuti
sumus_: cf. _Brut._ 316.

Sec.9. _Sunt ista_: = [Greek: esti tauta], so often, e.g. _Lael._ 6. Some edd.
have _sint_, which is unlikely to be right. _Nos in nostra_: Augustine (_De
Civ. Dei_ VI. 2) quotes this with the reading _reduxerunt_ for
_deduxerunt_, which is taken by Baiter and by Halm; who quotes with
approval Durand's remark, "_deducimus honoris causa sed errantes reducimus
humanitatis_." The words, however, are almost convertible; see _Cat. Mai._
63. In _Lael._ 12, _Brut._ 86, we have _reducere_, where Durand's rule
requires _deducere_, on the other hand cf. _Ad Herennium_ IV. 64, _hospites
domum deducere. Aetatem patriae_ etc., August. (_De Civ. Dei_ VI. 3)
describes Varro's "_Libri Antiquitatum_" (referred to in 8), in which most
of the subjects here mentioned were treated of. _Descriptiones temporum_:
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