Apologia
Description:... This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...81, and more especially Phaedo 76. 18. etsi pereleganter is Kriiger's emendation oi et semper eleganter Рф. He further reads reliqidt (cod. Toi.); though the tense of relinquat Рф is a little awkward, the sense is clear, and reliquit is a little violent as a remedy. The alternative is to read ut semper with codd. Urb. and Toi. This reading is adopted by Helm, who quotes (Pref. to Florida, p. xxiii) Cic. Brut. 22. 86 causant pro ptiblicanis accurate, ut semper solitus esset, eleganterque dixisse Laelium. But though Apuleius might well have said ' Wherefore I would have you hear what Afranius says', the phrase 'Wherefore let Afranius with his usual elegance leave this apophthegm on record ' is almost impossibly harsh. Reading etsi pereleganter the sense is excellent, ' Although Afranius' words are singularly apt, they yet require slight modification to bring them into line with the Platonic doctrine of avap.ira-ts.' 19. Afranius. The most famous writer of purely Roman comedy (togatae); floruit circ. Ilo B.C. amabit sapiens, cupient ceteri. See v. 221, Sc. Rom. poes. fragm. (Ribbeck ii, p. 228); Non. 421. 19; Serv. Aen. iv. 194. Cp. also Afranius (Ribbeck, op. cit., p. 198, v. 24) alius est Amor, alius Cupido. 20. si uerum uelis. Cp. 52 immo enim si гмггип uelis; SSt'mmo s uerum uelis; 98 si per uerum uelis (but see note ad loc.). CHAPTER 13 2. contra sententiam Neoptolemi Enniani pluribus philosophari. Cp. Cic. de Or. ii. 156 ac sic decreui philosophari potiits ut Neoptolemus apud Ennium 'paucis; nam omnino haud placet '; de Rep. i. 18. 30; Tuse. ii. i. i; Gell. v. 15 and 16. Ribbeck restores the whole line philosophari mihinecessepaucis, nam omnino haut...
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