being the name so explained (_Top._ 35). Varro
translated [Greek: etymologia] by _originatio_ (Quintil. I. 6, 28).
Aristotle had already laid down rules for this rhetorical use of etymology,
and Plato also incidentally adopts it, so it may speciously be said to
belong to the old Academico-Peripatetic school. A closer examination of
authorities would have led Halm to retract his bad em. _notationibus_ for
_notas ducibus_, the word _notatio_ is used for the whole science of
etymology, and not for particular derivations, while Cic. in numerous
passages (e.g. _D.F._ V. 74) describes _verba_ or _nomina_ as _rerum
notae_. Berkley's _nodis_ for _notis_ has no support, (_enodatio nominum_
in _N.D._ III. 62 is quite different). One more remark, and I conclude this
wearisome note. The _quasi_ marks _rerum nota_ as an unfamiliar trans. of
[Greek: symbolon]. Davies therefore ought not to have placed it before
_ducibus_, which word, strong as the metaphor is, requires no
qualification, see a good instance in _T.D._ I. 27. _Itaque tradebatur_: so
Halm improves on Madvig's _ita_ for _in qua_ of the MSS., which cannot be
defended. Orelli's reference to 30 _pars_ for an antecedent to _qua_ (_in
ea parte in qua_) is violent, while Goerenz's resort to _partem rerum
opinabilem_ is simply silly. Manut. conj. _in quo_, Cic. does often use the
neut. pronoun, as in _Orator_ 3, but not quite thus. I have sometimes
thought that Cic. wrote _haec, inquam_ (cf. _huic_ below). _Dialecticae_:
as [Greek: logike] had not been Latinised, Cic. is obliged to use this word
to denote [Greek: logike], of which [Greek: dialektike] is really one
subdivision with the Stoics and Antiochus, [Greek: rhetorike] which is
mentioned in the next sentence being the other; see Zeller 69, 70.
_Orationis ratione conclusae_: speech drawn up in a syllogistic form which
becomes _oratio perpetua_ under the influence of [Greek: rhetorike]. _Quasi
ex altera parte_: a trans. of Aristotle's [Greek: antistrophos] in the
beginning of the _Rhetoric_. _Oratoria_: Halm brackets this word; cf.
however a close parallel in _Brut._ 261 _oratorio ornamenta dicendi_. The
construction is simply a variation of Cic.'s favourite double genitive
(_T.D._ III. 39), _oratoria_ being put for _oratoris_. _Ad persuadendum_:
[Greek: to pithanon] is with Arist. and all ancient authorities the one aim
of [Greek: rhetorike].

Sec.Sec.33--42. Part v. of Varro's exposition: the departures from the old