[280] II.  Sec.80:  O praeclarum prospectum!

[281] Cf.  II.  Sec.9 with Sec.128 (signum illud), also Sec.Sec.80, 81, 100, 105, 125.

[282] II.  Sec.115.

[283] II.  Sec.63.

[284] II.  Sec.Sec.147, 148.

[285] II.  Sec.135.

[286] Cf.  II.  Sec.Sec.11, 12 with the words quae erant contra [Greek:  akatalepsian] praeclare collecta ab Antiocho:  Ad Att. XIII. 19, Sec.3.

[287] Varro, De Re Rust. III. 17.

[288] II.  Sec.11.

[289] Paradoxa, Sec.1. D.F. III.  Sec.8. Brutus, Sec.119.

[290] Ac. I. Sec.12. D.F. V. Sec.8.

[291] Cf.  II.  Sec.80.

[292] Cf.  Aug. Adv.  Acad. III.  Sec.35.  Nonius, sub v. exultare.

[293] Cf. the word nuper in Sec.1.

[294] Sec.11.

[295] Sec.Sec.3, 18.

[296] Ad Fam. IX. 8, Sec.1.

[297] Ad Att. II. 25, Sec.1.

[298] Ibid.  III. 8, Sec.3.

[299] Ibid.  III. 15, Sec.3; 18, Sec.1.

[300] Ad Fam. IX. 1—­8.  They are the only letters from Cicero to Varro preserved in our collections.

[301] Above, pp. xxxvii—­xlii.

[302] De Civ.  Dei, XIX. cc. 1—­3.

[303] See Madvig, De Fin. ed. 2, p. 824; also Krische, pp. 49, 50.  Brueckner, Leben des Cicero, I. p. 655, follows Mueller.

[304] Cf.  Krische, p. 58.