Pro Cluentio, Ed. by G.G. Ramsay

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... the principle of modesty, which produces 'Pudicitia' or purity of conduct.--'Pudor' belongs to the mind, 'Pudicitia' to the body. Sallust (Cat. 12) employs the terms together. Moreover, although we can satisfactorily account for the omission of 'pudicitia' in the process of transcription, it is not easy to see how it could have been interpolated. 12. Non filii dolor, non filiae maeror, and 5, 14, Exsultare laetitia, ac triumphare gaudio. Cicero in the Tusculan Disputations (4, 4 seqq.) divides mental perturbations (animi perturbationes--mift;) into four genera, viz.: ' Aegritudo, ' ' Laetitia, ' ' Metus, ' ' Lubido.' The different species of 'Aegritudo' are--1. ' Invidentia;' 2. 'Aemu-latio;' 3. ' Obtrectatio;' 4. ' Misericordia;' 5. 'Angor;' 6. 'Luctus;' 7. 'Maeror;' 8. 'Aerumna;' 9. 'Dolor;' 10. ' Lamentatio;' n. ' Sollicitudo;' 12.'Molestia;' 13.'Adflic-tatio;' 14. 'Desperatio;' and in enlarging upon these he explains ' Dolor' to be ' Aegritudo crucians, ' and ' Maeror' to be 'Aegritudo flebilis, ' definitions which agree well with the use of the words in our text, the former denoting the fierce pangs of manly grief in the son, the latter the more gentle and subdued misery of the daughter. With regard to 'Laetitia' he says (4. 6, 13)--'Quum ratione animus movetur placide atque constanter, tum illud Gaudium dicitur: quum autem inaniter et ecfuse animus ex-ultat, tum illa Laetitia gestiens vel nimia dici potest, quam ita definiunt, sine ratione animi elationem'--In our text the verb ' exsultare' annexed to'Laetitia' clearly brings it under the head of Laetitia gestiens, ' while the 'triumphare Gaudio' expresses the inward joy. We find the combination--' Trium-pho, gaudeo'--in a letter from Caesar to Cicero (Ad. Att. 9-16). 14. Consilio.