Sec.100. Si iam: “if, for example;” so iam is often used in Lucretius. Probo ... bono: it would have seemed more natural to transpose these epithets. Facilior ... ut probet: the usual construction is with ad and the gerund; cf. De Div. II. 107, Brut. 180. Anaxagoras: he made no [Greek: homoiomereiai] of snow, but only of water, which, when pure and deep, is dark in colour. Concreta: so Manut. for MSS. congregata. In 121 the MSS. give concreta without variation, as in N.D. II. 101, De Div. I. 130, T.D. I. 66, 71.
Sec.101. Impeditum: cf. 33, n. Movebitur: cf. moveri in 24. Non enim est: Cic. in the vast majority of cases writes est enim, the two words falling under one accent like sed enim, et enim (cf. Corss. Ausspr. II. 851); Beier on De Off. I. p. 157 (qu. by Halm) wishes therefore to read est enim, but the MSS. both of the Lucullus and of Nonius agree in the other form, which Madv. allows to stand in D.F. I. 43, and many other places (see his note). Cf. fragm. 22 of the Acad. Post. E robore: so Nonius, but the MSS. of Cic. give here ebore. Dolatus: an evident imitation of Hom. Od. T 163 [Greek: ou gar apo drios essi palaiphatou oud’ apo petres]. Neque tamen habere: i.e. se putat. For the sudden change from oratio recta to obliqua cf. 40 with n. Percipiendi notam: = [Greek: charaktera tes synktatheseos] in Sext. P.H. I. 191. For the use of the gerund cf. n. on 26, with Madv. Gram. 418, Munro on Lucr. I. 313; for propriam 34. Exsistere. cf. 36. Qui neget: see 79. Caput: a legal term. Conclusio loquitur: cf. historiae loquantur (5), consuetudo loquitur (D.F. II. 48), hominis institutio si loqueretur (ib. IV. 41), vites si loqui possint (ib. V. 39), patria loquitur (In Cat. I. 18, 27); the last use Cic. condemns himself in Orat. 85. Inquit: “quotha,” indefinitely, as in 109, 115; cf. also dicit in 79.


