adportet mali_. -- SAT EST: _sat_ for _satis_ in Cicero's time was
old-fashioned and poetical. -- QUOD DIU: these words must be scanned as a
spondee. The _i_ in _diu_ here probably had the sound of our _y_. A. 347,
_c_, G. 717; H. 608, III. n. 2. Allen well compares a line of Publilius
Syrus _heu quam multa paenitenda incurrunt vivendo diu_. -- VOLT:
indefinite subject. -- VIDET: Tischer quotes Herod. 1, 32 (speech of Solon
to Croesus) εν γαρ τωι μακρωι χρονωι πολλα μεν εστιν ιδεειν, τα μη τις
εθελει, πολλα δε και παθεειν. -- TUM EQUIDEM etc.: these lines, as well as
those above, occurred in a play of Statius called _'Ephesio'_ see Ribbeck's
'Fragmenta'. -- SENECTA: not used by prose writers before the time of
silver Latin. -- DEPUTO: this compound is used by the dramatists and then
does not occur again till late Latin times. -- EUMPSE: like _ipse_ and
_reapse_ (for which see n. on Lael. 47) this word contains the enclitic
particle _pe_ (probably another form of _que_), found in _nem pe_,
_quis-p-iam_ etc., along with _se_, which belongs to an old demonstrative
pronoun once declined _sos_, _sa_, _sum_, the masc. and fem. of which are
seen in ‛ο, ‛η. The form was no doubt originally _eumpsum_, like _ipsom_
(_ipsum_), but has passed into its present form just as _ipsos_ (nom.)
became _ipso_, then _ipse_. The only difference in sense between _eumpse_
and the simple _eum_ is that the former is more emphatic. The pronoun
_eumpse_ is the subject of the infinitive _sentire_, but the substantive,
_senex_, to which the pronoun refers, is not expressed. -- ODIOSUM: cf. n.
on 4.

26. IUCUNDUM ... ODIOSUM: elliptic, = _'iucundum' potius quam 'odiosum'
senem esse dicendum est_. -- UT ... DELECTANTUR: cf. Lael. 101; also below,
29. -- SAPIENTES SENES: neither of these words is used as an adjective
here; the whole expression = _sapientes, cum facti sunt senes_. -- LEVIOR:
cf. the fragm. of Callimachus: γηρασκει δ' ‛ο γερων κεινος ελαφροτερον, τον
κουροι φιλεουσι. -- COLUNTUR ET DILIGUNTUR: _colere_ rather implies the