dicunt_. In cases like this the verb of saying is usually in the
subjunctive. Cf. Roby, 1746; A. 341, Rem.; G. 541, Rem. 2; H. 516, II. 1.
The indicative here is more vivid and forcible. -- MUNUS ... AUFERT: to say
that a gift robs one of anything is of course an _oxymoron_; cf. n. on 16
_mentes dementis_. -- AETATIS: almost = _senectutis_: cf. n. on 45. -- ID
QUOD EST etc.: 'the greatest fault of youth'; _i.e._ the love of pleasure.
In this passage _voluptas_ indicates pleasure of a sensual kind, its
ordinary sense, _delectatio, oblectatio_ etc. being used of the higher
pleasures. In 51, however, we have _voluptates agricolarum_. -- ACCIPITE:
'hear'; so _dare_ often means 'to tell'. With _accipere_ in this sense cf.
the similar use of αποδεχεσθαι. -- ARCHYTAE: Archytas (the subject of
Horace's well-known ode, 1, 28) was a contemporary and friend of Plato, and
a follower of the Pythagorean philosophy. He wrote philosophical works, and
was also famous as a mathematician and astronomer, besides being the
leading statesman and general of the commonwealth of Tarentum. For another
saying of Archytas, cf. Lael. 88. -- TRADITA EST: 'was imparted to me',
_i.e._ by word of mouth. -- CUM ... TARENTI: 'when as a young man I stayed
at Tarentum'. For _adulescens_ cf. n. on 26 _senes_. -- NULLAM ... PESTEM
etc.: cf. Lael. 34 _pestem ... cupiditatem_; Off. 2, 9 _consuetudo ...
honestatem ab utilitate secernens, qua nulla pernicies maior hominum vitae
potuit afferri_. -- CAPITALIOREM: 'more deadly'; _caput_ was often
equivalent to _vita_, so that _capitalis_ comes to mean 'affecting the
life'.

P. 17. -- 40. HINC etc.: cf. Cic. Hortensius fragm. _quod turpe damnum,
quod dedecus est quod non evocetur atque eliciatur voluptate?_ Observe the
singular _patriae_ followed by the plural _rerum publicarum_; the plural of
_patria_ is rare. On the significance of this passage see Lecky, Hist. of
European Morals, I. p. 211, n. (Am. ed.). -- CUM HOSTIBUS etc.: attributive
phrase; cf. Phil. 12, 27 _colloquia cum acerrimis hostibus_. -- SCELUS: