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the principle leading to the affociation, and to the purpofe of 
maintaining it. Men become /odales, not to promote their in- 
tereft, but to enjoy fociety. Their alliance is formed and_pre- 
ferved for their mutual entertainment; it is never underftood 
to lead to any thing difagreeable, and it may at any time be 
abandoned without the violation of compact. ‘‘ Et tempeftiva 
“ convivia, et pervigiles ludos, advocata /odadium turba, folutus 
“ atque affluens agerem *.” 
Pompe! meorum prime /odalium, 
Cum quo morantem fepe diem mero 
Fregi ——— }.- 
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“ Primum habui femper /odales. Epulabar cum /odalibus om- 
“ nino modice f.” 
Copia, ABUNDANTIA, UBERTAS, agree in denoting plenty, 
but differ according as this refers to the removal of every 
want, to what is more than fufficient for this purpofe; or to the 
regular fupply of a neceffary wafte. Copia, which feems to be 
compounded of con and opes, denotes an affemblage of the 
means fit for effeCting any purpofe. It ftands oppofed to inopia, 
which denotes the abfence of fuch means, and which is alfo 
derived from the fame root. ‘“ Nec in fumma inopia- levis effe. 
“ fenectus poteft ne fapienti quidem, nec in fumma copia infi-. 
“ pienti non gravis §.””—“ Rerum copia verborum. copiam 
rT gignit **”? : 
obnoxii ambo; 
Vobis fumus propter hanc rem, cum quz volumus nos: 
Copia eft, ea facitis nos compotes —— tt. 
The 
* Quin&. Decl. 9. 10. § Cic. de Sen. 78. 2. 
+ Hor. Car. 2. 7. 5. ** Cic. Or. 3. 123. 
+ Cic. Sen. 86. a. ; +t Plaut. Cap. 2. 1. 21. 
