§16. _Hic ... illum_: for this repetition of pronouns see _M.D.F._ IV. 43. _Varie et copiose_: MSS. omit _et_, but it may be doubted whether Cic. would let two _adverbs_ stand together without _et_, though three may (cf. II. 63), and though with pairs of _nouns_ and _adjectives, et_ often is left out, as in the passages quoted here by Manut. _Ad Att._ IV. 3, 3, _Ad Fam._ XIII. 24, XIII. 28, cf. also the learned note of Wesenberg, reprinted in Baiter and Halm's edition, of Cic.'s philosophical works (1861), on _T.D._ III. 6. _Varie et copiose_ is also in _De Or._ II. 240. Cf. the omission of _que_ in 23, also II. 63. _Perscripti_: Cic. like Aristotle often speaks of Plato's dialogues as though they were authentic reports of Socratic conversations, cf. II. 74. _Nihil adfirmet_: so _T.D._ I. 99. "_Eoque praestare ceteris_" this is evidently from Plato _Apol._ p. 21, as to the proper understanding of which see note on II. 74. _Ab Apolline_, Plato _Apol._ 21 A, _Omnium_: Dav. conj. _hominum_ needlessly. _Dictum_: Lamb., followed by Schutz, reads _iudicatum_, it is remarkable that in four passages where Cic. speaks of this very oracle (_Cato Mai._ 78, _Lael._ 7, 9, 13) he uses the verb _iudicare_. _Una omnis_: Lamb. _hominis_, Baiter also. _Omnis eius oratio tamen_: _notwithstanding_ his negative dialectic he gave positive teaching in morals. _Tamen_: for MSS. _tam_ or _tum_ is due to Gruter, Halm has _tantum_. _Tam_, _tum_ and _tamen_ are often confused in MSS., e.g. _In Veri_ (_Act_ II.) I. 3, 65, II. 55, 112, V. 78, where see Zumpt. Goer. abuses edd. for not knowing that _tum ... et_, _tum ... que_, _et ... tum_, correspond in Cic. like _tum ... cum_, _tum ... tum_. His proofs of this new Latin may be sampled by _Ac._ II. 1, 43. _Ad virtutis studium cohortandis_: this broad assertion is distinctly untrue; see Zeller's _Socrates_ 88, with footnote.