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UT ... GLORIER: in Arch. 30 Cic. makes the same reflections in almost the same words about his own achievements. ALIQUID: see n. on 1 quid. SI ISDEM etc.: cf. Arch. 29 si nihil animus praesentiret ... dimicaret. AETATEM: = vitam. TRADUCERE: cf. Tusc. 3, 25 volumus hoc quod datum est vitae tranquille placideque traducere. ERIGENS SE: Acad. 2, 127 erigimur, elatiores fieri videmur.
Anne censes, ut de me ipse aliquid more senum glorier, me tantos labores diurnos nocturnosque domi militiaeque suscepturum fuisse, si isdem finibus gloriam meam quibus vitam essem terminaturus? Nonne melius multo fuisset otiosam et quietam aetatem sine ullo labore et contentione traducere?
ID: 'such a course'; cf. 82 ut de me ipse aliquid more senum glorier. VIDETISNE UT: here ne is the equivalent of nonne, as it often is in the Latin of Plautus and Terence, and in the colloquial Latin of the classical period. For ut after videtis see n. on 26. NESTOR: e.g. in Iliad 1, 260 et seq. 11, 668 et seq. TERTIAM AETATEM: cf. Iliad 1, 250; Odyssey 3, 245.
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