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De Natura Deorum, an examination of the principal theories regarding the nature and power of the gods; Cato Maior, on old age; Laelius, on friendship; De Fato, discussing Fate and Free Will; Paradoxa, a book setting forth certain remarkable views of the Stoics; De Officiis, a treatise on practical ethics, the application of moral principles to the questions and difficulties of ordinary life.
His Paradoxa Stoicorum might have been more suitably, perhaps, included in his rhetorical works, being six short declamations in support of the positions of Zeno; in which that philosopher's subtleties are adapted to the comprehension of the vulgar, and the events of the times. The second, fourth, and sixth, are respectively directed against Antony, Clodius, and Crassus.
If it pleases God to restore me to my health, I shall readily make a third journey; if not we must part, as all human creatures have parted. He never made the third journey. Swift's Works, ed. 1803, xvii. 154. See ante, ii. 162. No doubt Percy. The philosopher was Bias. Cicero, Paradoxa, i. Not easily, I think, hearing the sermon, or not being attentive, I fell asleep.
NON PLUS QUAM: 'any more than'. After the negative ne above it is incorrect to translate non by a negative in English, though the repetition of the negative is common enough in Latin, as in some English dialects. Cf. n. on 24. Plus here = magis. QUOD EST: sc. tibi, 'what you have', so Paradoxa 18 and 52 satis esse, quod est. AGAS: quisquis is generally accompanied by the indicative, as in Verg.
Again, before the infant colony settled upon the drift wood, part of a tree must have been floated down to the sea by a river, uprooted, perhaps, by a flood, or torn off and cast into the waves by the wind: and thus our thoughts are carried back to a prior period, when the tree grew for years on dry land, enjoying a fit soil and climate. Bacillaria paradoxa. a. Front view. b.
During the ensuing year, which is the last of his life, in the midst of the confusion and anxieties consequent on Cæsar's death, and the party warfare of his Philippics, he found time to write the De Naturâ Deorum, De Divinatione, De Fato, De Senectute, De Amicitiâ, De Officiis, and Paradoxa, besides the treatise on Rhetorical Common Places above mentioned.
There are many contradictions and improbabilities about it. SCIPIONES: see n. on 29. In Paradoxa 1, 12 Cic. says of them Carthaginiensium adventum corporibus suis intercludendum putaverunt. POENIS: on the dat. see A. 235, a; H. 384, 4, n. 2. PAULUM: n. on 29 L. Aemilius. COLLEGAE: M. Terentius Varro.
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