[256] My feelings, Conscript Fathers, are extremely different, etc.--_Longe mihi alia mens est, P. C._, etc. The commencement of Cato's speech is evidently copied from the beginning of the third Olynthiac of Demosthenes: [Greek: _Ouchi tauta paristatai moi ginoskein, o andres Athaenaioi, otan te eis ta pragmata apoblepso kai otan pros tous logous ous akouo tous men gar logous peri tou timoraesasthai Philippon oro gignomenous, ta de pragmata eis touto proaekonta oste opos mae peisometha autoi proteron kakos skepsasthai deon_.] "I am by no means affected in the same manner. Athenians, when I review the state of our affairs, and when I attend to those speakers who have now declared their sentiments. They insist that we should punish Philip; but our affairs, situated as they now appear, warn us to guard against the dangers with which we ourselves are threatened." _Leland_. [257] Their altars and their homes--_Aris atque focis suis._ "When _arae_ and _foci_ are joined, beware of supposing that they are to be distinguished as referring the one (_arae) to the public temples, and the other (_foci_) to private dwellings. Both are to be understood of private houses, in which the _ara_ belonged to the _Dii Penates_, and was placed in the _impluvium_ in the inner part of the house; the _focus_ was dedicated to the _lares_, and was in the hall." Ernesti, Clav. Cic., sub. v. _Ara_. Of the commentators on Sallust, Kritzius is, I believe, the only one who has concurred in this notion of Ernesti; Langins and Dietsch (with Cortius) adhere to the common opinion that _arae_ are the public altars. Dietsch refers, for a complete refutation of Ernesti, to G. A. B. Hertzberg _de Diis Romanorum Penatibus_, Halae, 1840, p. 64; a book which I have not seen. Certainly, in the observation of Cicero ad Att., vii. 11, "Non est respublica in parietibus, sed in aris et focis," _arae_ must be considered (as Schiller observes) to denote the public altars and national religion. See Schiller's Lex. v. _Ara_. [258] In vain appeal to justice--_Frusta judicia implores. Judicia_, trials, to procure the inflictions of legal penalties. [259] Could not easily pardon the misconduct, etc.--_Haud facile alterius lubidini malefacta condonabam_. "Could not easily forgive the licentiousness of another its evil deeds." [260] Yet the republic remained secure; its own strength, etc. --_Tamen respublica firma, opulentia neglegentiam tolerabat_. This is Cortius's reading; some editors, as Havercamp, Kritzius, and Dietsch, insert _erat_ after _firma_. Whether _opulentia_ is the nominative or ablative, is disputed. "_Opulentia_," says Allen, "casum sextum intellige, et repete _respublica_ (ad _tolerabat_)." "_Opulentia_," says Kritzius, "melius nominativo capiendum videtur; nam quae sequuntur verba novam enunciationem efficiunt." I have preferred to take it as a nominative.