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VITAE CONIUNCTIONEM: 'a common enjoyment of life'. TUM ... TUM: here purely temporal, 'sometimes ... sometimes'; often however = 'both ... and'; cf. 7. COMPOTATIONEM etc.: cf. Epist. ad Fam. 9, 24, 3. Compotatio = συμποσιον; concenatio = συνδειπνον. IN EO GENERE: see n. on 4. ID: i.e. eating and drinking.
Having finished with his writings up to the year 1564, Cardan lapses into a philosophizing strain, and opens his discourse with the ominous words, "Sed jam ad institutum revertamur, déque ipso vitæ humanæ genere aliquo dicamus." He begins with a disquisition on the worthlessness of life, and repeats somewhat tediously the story of his visit to Scotland.
But in spite of this, the same savant says in another place, that he cannot allow that there is a difference in kind, that is in genere, between the human mind and the mind of a dog. If men would only define their words, such contradictions would in time become impossible. What men and animals have in common is the Self, and this so-called Self consists first of all in perception.
He began to learn Greek when he was about thirty-five, but it was not till he had turned forty that he took up the study of it in real earnest; and, writing some years later, he gives quotations from a Latin version of Aristotle. These treatises bristle with quotations, Horace being his favourite author. "Vir in omni sapientiæ genere admirandus."
He is the highest representative of the Norse element in music, "the great beating heart of Norwegian musical art." Grieg's genere pieces represent the pearls of his compositions. Grieg wrote one hundred and twenty-five songs, most of which take high rank. Finck is of the opinion that fewer fall below par than in the list of any other song writer.
Res cum re, ratio cum ratione concertet, as the father said: Arguments, Sir, arguments, arguments, if there be any: you have affirmed great things, and new things, which you have not proved. The assertions of such as are for a church government in genere, and for the presbyterial government in specie, are known; their arguments are known, but your solutions are not yet known.
MILES etc.: 'as common soldier'; see n. on 10. IN VARIO GENERE: we use the plural, 'in different kinds'. Cf. Acad. 2, 3 in omni genere belli; Deiot. 12 in omni genere bellorum. CESSARE: cf. n. on 13. AT SENATUI etc.: exactly the same ideas are expressed, with the same mention of Cato's activity in Off. 1, 79.
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