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Still greater is the opposition between it and the two Erotic dialogues, Phaedrus and Symposium, where Bonum and Pulchrum are attained in the pursuit of an ecstatic and overwhelming personal affection. The REPUBLIC starts with the question what is JUSTICE? and, in answering it, provides the scheme of a model Republic.
Could not a clever girl throw herself into the part of Alcestis, or chant the majestic verses of Cleanthes, or extemporize a hymn upon the spring, or hold an argument on the pulchrum and utile, without having any leaning towards Christianity? A calm, sweet voice, a noble air, an expressive countenance, refined and decorous manners, were these specific indications of heavenly grace?
He who was fortunate enough to procure a can of water by these means, was sued to, and envied as a rich man. Quem pulchrum digito monstrari, et dicere hic est.
SED TAMEN etc.: 'but for all that it was inevitable that there should be something with the nature of an end'. So 69 in quo est aliquid extremum, 43 aliquid pulchrum. Tusc. 1, 31 arbores seret diligens agricola, quarum aspiciet bacam ipse numquam TERRAEQUE FRUCTIBUS: here = cereals, roots, vegetables and small fruits.
"That face pleases me," he would say, "it is therefore beautiful!" He ought to have thanked God for having given him such an exquisite eye for the beautiful; but 'omne pulchrum difficile'.
He would not have said, as the author of the "Fable of the Bees" did, that the "hunting after this pulchrum et honestum is not much better than a wild-goose chase." But he had a strong contempt for the humbugs of the world, and among them he placed unflinching optimists. One of the main forms of humbug in his day was the legend that everybody acted nobly for the sake of other people.
"Go to the schoolroom, my darlings," he whispered to his children. "Why, what have you there?" "Choclets," said Capricornus. "From the pretty lady, mulius pulchrum," added the little Corona. "Who is a mulibus pulchrum, my love?" asked Mr. Sagittarius, before Capricornus had time to correct his sister's Latin. "It was Miss Minerva," said the Prophet. "We happened to meet her." "Indeed, sir.
EX PETERETUR: em. for peteretur in the MSS. The words expetere, expetendum are technically used in Cicero's philosophical works to express the Greek ‛αιρεισθαι, ‛αιρετον as applied to the finis or τελος, the supreme aim of moral action. Pulchrum above is a translation of the Greek καλον, a term constantly applied to the τελος, particularly by the Stoics.
"Quam pulchrum spectaculum Deo, cum Christianus cum dolore congueditur? cum adversus minas, et supplicia, et tormenta componitur? cum libertatem suam adversus reges ac Principes erigit." Disappointed of a fellowship at Cambridge, he turned actor; failed upon the stage, but prospered as a writer for it. His career as a dramatist began with 'Nero', in 1675, and he wrote in all eleven plays.
Deci facto iudicabant esse profecto aliquid natura pulchrum atque praeclarum, quod sua sponte expeteretur quodque spreta et contempta voluptate optimus quisque sequeretur. 44 Quorsum igitur tam multa de voluptate? Quia non modo vituperatio nulla, sed etiam summa laus senectutis est, quod ea voluptates nullas magno opere desiderat. Caret epulis exstructisque mensis et frequentibus poculis.
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