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opposite we want. C. F. W. lliiller reads <Nec> nescio : Kahnt Sane 

 i^cio, wMch Mr. Tyrrell and I adopted in our edition in preference to 

 scio of Schiitz and Baiter. But none of these corruptions was likely 



to have taken place. Perhaps Ne ego scio, i.e. neescio, 'Yerily,' I 

 know it.' 



V. 10. 4. — ac non modo nemo fmodo ne Roma quidem quisquam. 



So the MSS. The simple correction of Kayser approved by Madvig 

 (Adv. Crit, ii. p. 235) nemo domo <sed> ne remedies the passage 

 perfectly. The confusion of doDio and modo is one of the commonest 

 of errors : cf . Plant. Stick. 623, where the Ambrosian makes the 

 mistake: also Verg. ^n. x. 141 : Plant. Men. 803 ; Mil. Arg. 1. 13. 

 and 484 : Cic. Fam. ii. 16. 4 modesticis for domesticis. C. P. W. Miiller 

 reads non modo homo sed ne rumor quisquam^ which is no doubt idio- 

 matic as regards the first clause, but leaves the irregular collocation 

 of quisquam with the name of a thing. 



v. 10. 5. — Valde me Athenae delectarunt urbe dumtaxat et urbis 

 omamento et hominum amore in te et in nos quadam 

 benevolentia ; sed multum f ea philosophia sursum 

 deorsum, si quidem est in Aristo apud quem eram. 



That sursum deorsum is predicate (like susque deque in Att. xiv. 

 6. 1, as Schiche, op. cit., p. 16, points out) seems certain, and indicates 

 the ' topsy-turvy ' nature of the philosophy at the time. Aristus was 

 the head of the younger generation who grew up under the influence 

 of the eclectic Antiochus. He is often mentioned in Cicero (see Reid 

 on Acad. i. 12, and Zeller, 'Eclectics,' p. 100, Eng. Trans.), The 

 doctrines of the Academy were almost entirely abandoned [quam mine 

 prope oriam esse in ipsa Graecia intellego, Cic. N. D. i. 11) ; and the 

 new philosophy (so-called) of Eclecticism seemed to have come into 

 fashion. Possibly then we should read sed multum ij via cj>iXoa-o<^La, 

 and there would be the same touch of scorn in the word via that we find 

 in adidescentioris Academiae in Fam. ix. 8. 1, and in the expression, 

 " The jN'ew Learning" of to-day. 



Zeller {I.e.) says of Aristus that Cicero " describes him as the only 

 man who formed an exception to the generally unsatisfactory state of 

 philosophy at Athens." Zeller would seem to read si quidem est, 

 <est> in Aristo. But I think that the reading of the MSS. more 

 accurately expresses Cicero's opinion of Aristus. Even in a formal 

 treatise, not merely in a private letter, Cicero implies that he did not 



