412 Proceedhiys of the Royal Iri^h Academy. 



"Without positively assenting to it as correct, it seems to me the 

 "best emendation yet proposed and certainly preferable to iamne vos : 

 for it explains the corruption of MC better than ianme vos does, and 

 Cicero sometimes mentions the place at which an event occurred, 

 even though such mention is quite immaterial : cf. Att. 1. 19. 10 non 

 dicam quod tihi, ut opinor, Panhormi Lucullus de suis Mstoriis dixerat, 

 unless, indeed, "we should there Y&ddi 2ynri modo (see Serm,athe7ia, xix. 

 1893, p. 366). 



vi. 2. 3.— Communicavi cum Dionysio. Atque is prime est com- 

 motus, deinde, quod de fdeo cum isto Dicaearcho 

 non minus bene existimabat quam tu de C. Yestorio 

 . . . non dubitabat quin ei crederemus. 



A few lines before Cicero had said that the passage in Dicaearchus 

 to which he gave credence was in Troflioniana Chaeronis narratione, 

 that is to say, in the treatise elsewhere (Att. xiii. 31.2: 32. 2 : 33. 2 : 

 Athenaeus 594 : 641) spoken of as Trept t^s es TpocfxjyvLov Kara/Jao-ews, 

 in which the historical account of Trophonius would appear to have 

 been put into the mouth of Chaeron. This dramatic setting was 

 appropriate, as Chaeronea was quite close to Lebadea, where the cave 

 of Trophonius was, and Chaeron was the eponymous hero of the former 

 town. This Chaeron was the son of Apollo and There, daughter of 

 Phylas : cf. Pausanias ix. 40. 3 (5). It is probable, therefore, that 

 we should read for the corrupt words de Chaerone isto Bicaearcheo. 



vi. 2. 5. — Mira erant in civitatibus ipsorum furta Graecorum, 

 quae magistratus sui fecerant. Quaesivi ipse de iis, 

 qui aunis decem proximis magistratum gesserant. 

 Aperte fatebantur. Itaque sine uUa ignominia suis 

 u m e r i s pecunias populis rettulerunt. 

 Suis wneris referre seems a strange phrase, and can hardly be 

 defended by suis umeris sustinere in Mil. 25 and elsewhere. Some- 

 thing like ' paying out of their' own pockets ' is required. Perhaps 

 <ex> or <de> suis cr umenis. For ex omitted cf. §7 <ex> ista 

 synyraiolm ; and for de omitted cf. Att. vi. 7 1 <de> nominihus Milonis. 

 The rare word cnimenis might readily have been corrupted. It does 

 not appear to occur elsewhere in Cicero, but it is found in Plautus 

 about a dozen times. 



vi. 2. 7. — Numerabantur nummi : noluit Scaptius. Tu qui ais 

 Brutum cupere aliquid perdere ? " Quaternas habebat 

 in syngrapha." Pieri non poterat. 

 For Tu qui Lambinus reads Tun' qui; Boot <uhi> tu qui; Tyrrell Tu 



