[Footnote 8: The theory of Lachmann and others that Q. Cicero was the editor may possibly be true. He dabbled in poetry himself, and he was more nearly of the same age as Lucretius, and thus perhaps more likely to have been a friend of his. The fact that Cicero's remark is in answer to one of his might suggest the opinion that the poem had been read by him before it became known to the older brother, and perhaps been sent by him to Cicero. But if Q. Cicero was the editor, Jerome must here also have copied his authorities carelessly. In the time of Jerome the familiar name of Cicero must have been understood as applying to the great orator and philosophic writer, not to his comparatively obscure brother. The only certain inference which can be drawn from this mention of the poem is that it had been read, shortly after its appearance, in the beginning of the year 54 B.C., by both brothers. Yet the consideration of the whole case does not lead to the rejection of the statement that M. Cicero was the editor as incredible, or even as highly improbable. If it was he, he must have performed his task very perfunctorily. Possibly, as Mr. Munro suggests, all that he may have been asked to do was to introduce the work to the public by the use of his name. The actual revision and arrangement of the poem may have been made by one of the 'librarii' of Atticus.] [Footnote 9: E.g. Tusc. Disp. i. 21, especially the sentence--'Quae quidem cogitans soleo saepe admirari non nullorum insolentiam philosophorum qui naturae cognitionem admirantur, eiusque inventori et principi gratias exultantes agunt eumque venerantur ut deum.'] [Footnote 10: The use of _tamen_ in the sense of 'all the same' is not uncommon in the colloquial language of Terence, which the language of Cicero's familiar letters closely resembles.] [Footnote 11: At that time he would be about forty-one years of age--the same age as Lucretius, if, as is most probable, he was born in 99 B.C.] [Footnote 12: i. 643-4; cf. [Greek: oute hos logographoi xunethesan epi to prosagogoteron te akroasei e alethesteron].--Thuc. i. 21.] [Footnote 13: The lines (v. 999)-- At non multa virum sub signis milia ducta Una dies dabat exitio, etc.-- might well be a reminiscence of the great massacre at the Colline gate.] [Footnote 14: Cp. Munro, Note II, p. 413. Third Edition.] [Footnote 15: 'Si jam violentior aliqua in re C. Caesar fuisset, si eum magnitudo contentionis, studium gloriae, praestans animus, excellens nobilitas aliquo impulisset.'--In Vatinium 6.] [Footnote 16: iv. 973, etc.] [Footnote 17: iv. 75, etc.] [Footnote 18: ii. 24, etc.] [Footnote 19: In places where he is not drawing from his own observation, he uses such expressions as _memorant_; e.g. iii. 642.]