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the principle leading to the affociation, and to the purpofe of 

 maintaining it. Men become fodales, 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 Jodalium turba, folutus 

 " atque affluens agerem *." 



Pompei meorum prime Jodalium, 

 Cum quo morantem faepe diem mero 

 Fregi f . 



" Primum habui femper fodales. Epulabar cum fodalibus om- 

 " nino modice ^." 



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. " Nee in fumma inopia levis effe 

 " fenectus poteft ne fapienti quidem, nee in fumma copia infi- 

 " pienti non gravis §." — " Rerum copia verborum copiam 



gignit 



obnoxii ambo 



Vobis fumus propter hanc rem, cum quae volumus nos 



Copia eft, ea facitis nos compotes f f. 



The 



* Quinft. Decl. 9. 10. § Cic. de Sen. 78. b. 



f Hor. Car. 2. 7. 5. ** Cic. Or. 3. 123. 



\ Cic. Sen. 86. a. ft Plaut. Cap. 2, 1. 2r. 



