PuiiSEK — Cicero's Correspondence during his Proconsulate. 407 



smoothly. "I think that Scaptius showed more impudence than 

 folly : for his conduct is explicable either as a refusal of 12 per cent, 

 on good security, or as a hope of 48 per cent, on risky security " — 

 and either of these alternatives was evidence of impuclentia. Por a 

 multitude of cases in which M omits non^ see C. F. "W. Miiller's note 

 on Att. iii. 13. 1 (p. 84, 28). 



vi. 1. 3. — Nunc venio ad Brutum . . . quern etiam amare 

 coeperam ; seel ilico [dico codd.'] me revocavi ne te 

 ofienderem. 



Perhaps we should read de eo for dico. For revocare de cf . Fam. x. 1 . 1 . 



vi. 1. 3. — Primum ah Arioharzane sic contendi ut talenta quae 

 mihi poUicehatur, illi daret. 



Mr. Tyrrell and I suggested to insert either <ea> or <sex> (i.e. vi) 

 before talenta. Perhaps the insertion should be <C'.>, i.e. centum: cf. 

 Att. vi. 3. 5 Bruto curata hoc amio talenta circiter C, Pomjpeio in sex- 

 mensib us from issa C C. 



vi. 1. 4. — Itaque aut tutela cogito me abdicare aut ut pro 

 Glabrione Scaevola fenus et impendium recusare. 



M. Glabrio would appear to have spent a careless youth (cf. 

 Brut. 239 M" Glalrionem lene institutum avi Scae-volae diligentia socors 

 ipsius natura neglegensque tardaverat), and to have fallen into the 

 hands of money-lenders. Scaevola may, on such an occasion, have 

 refused to repay more than the principal lent. This passage is 

 generally taken to mean that he refused to pay principal (fenus J and 

 interest {impendium^ : for Varro (L. L. v. 183) says (Ed. K. 0. 

 Miiller) a quo [sc. the verb pendere^ usura quod in sorte accedebat 

 impendium appellatum: quaequomaccederetad sortem,usu usura dicta 

 ut sors quod suum fit sorte ; and this would seem to show that impen- 

 dium was another name for usura. It is urged further that fenus^ in 

 a few passages of Tacitus (Hist. 1. 20, Ann. vi. 17), seems to be used 

 in the sense of ' capital,' in opposition to real estate. But, as far as I 

 know, it is only used in this opposition ; and its use here, in the sense 

 of 'capital,' when in the same paragraph, a few lines before, it is used 

 in the ordinary sense of ' interest,' would be both strange and mis- 

 leading. 



So I think that fenus here means ' interest,' and impendium 

 means 'costs,' 'expenses' (lit. * increments,' ' additional payments '), 

 such as one hears so much about in money-lending cases, money 



