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Updated: June 4, 2025
He should be an adept in royal synchronisms, should know the boundaries of all the provinces and chieftaincies, and should be able to trace the genealogies of all the tribes of Erin up to the first man. Caesar had already told us of the Druids, "Si de hereditate, si de finibus controversia est iidem decernunt."
When the cover was removed, the sacrilegious dog of an Amphitryon had put into the dish Cicero's 'De Finibus. 'There is a work all fins! said he. "Atrocious jest!" exclaimed Brandon, solemnly. "Was it not? Whenever the gastronomists set up a religious inquisition, I trust they will roast every impious rascal who treats the divine mystery with levity. Pun upon cooking, indeed!
He also found Cicero's two treatises De Legibus and De Finibus.
'And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to have so much of the AMOR PATRIAE, when we met in Edinburgh, as even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares, or household gods, PROCUL A PATRIEA FINIBUS, and in a manner to expatriate yourself.
Indeed there seems to be not a little direct use of Philodemus' works in Cicero's De finibus and the De natura deorum written many years later. In any case, at least Catullus, Horace, and Ovid made free to paraphrase some of his epigrams.
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