[296] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxix. [297] De Nat. Deo., lib. ii., ca. liv., lv. [298] De Nat. Deo., lib. iii., ca. xxvii. [299] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. xxxiii. [300] De Divinatione, lib. i., ca. xviii. [301] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xlvii. [302] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. i. [303] Horace, Ep., lib. ii., ca. i.: "Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued. And Rome grew polished who till then was rude." CONINGTON'S Translation. [304] De Divinatione, lib. ii., ca. ii. [305] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. li. [306] The story of Simon Du Bos and his MS. has been first told to me by Mr. Tyrell in his first volume of the Correspondence of Cicero, p. 88. That a man should have been such a scholar, and yet such a liar, and should have gone to his long account content with the feeling that he had cheated the world by a fictitious MS., when his erudition, if declared, would have given him a scholar's fame, is marvellous. Perhaps he intended to be discovered. I, for one, should not have heard of Bosius but for his lie. [307] De Republica, lib. iii. It is useless to give the references here. It is all fragmentary, and has been divided differently as new information has been obtained. [308] De Legibus, lib. i., ca. vii. [309] De Legibus, lib. i., ca. x. [310] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xviii. [311] De Legibus, lib. iii., ca. ix., x. [312] Ibid., lib. iii., xvii. [313] De Senectute, ca. ix. [314] Ibid., ca. x. [315] Ibid., ca. xi. [316] Ibid., ca. xviii. [317] Ibid., ca. xxi. [318] De Amicitia, ca. xix. [319] De Officiis, lib. ii., ca. v. [320] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xvii. [321] De Officiis, lib. i., ca. xxix: "Suppeditant autem et campus noster et studia venandi, honesta exempla ludendi." The passage is quoted here as an antidote to that extracted some time since from one of his letters, which has been used to show that hunting was no occupation for a "polite man"--as he, Cicero, had disapproved of Pompey's slaughter of animals on his new stage. [322] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xxxi.