64. PLAUSUS MULTIPLEX: cf. Verg. Aen. 1, 747 _ingeminant plausu_. Cic.
generally says _plausus maximus_. -- FACERE NOLLE: cf. the well-known
saying of Demosthenes, Olynth. 3, § 3 πεπεισμαι γαρ τα πλειω των πραγματων
‛υμας εκπεφευγεναι τωι μη βουλεσθαι τα δεοντα ποιειν, η τωι μη συνιεναι. --
COLLEGIO: the college or board of augurs to which Cato belonged. In his
time there were nine members; later the number was increased. -- ANTECEDIT:
_sc. alios_. -- SENTENTIAE PRINCIPATUM: 'precedence in debate'. Meissner
quotes Verr. 4, 142 _ut quisque aetate et honore antecedit, ita primus
solet sua sponte dicere itaque a ceteris ei conceditur_. -- HONORE: _i.e._
as regards office, past or present. -- QUI ... SUNT: actual praetors or
consuls. -- COMPARANDAE: n. on 50. -- FABULAM AETATIS: cf. 5, 70, 85. The
comparison of life to a play, and mankind to the players, is common in all
literature; _e.g._ 'All the world's a stage, etc.'. When Augustus was on
his deathbed he asked his friends _ecquid eis videretur mimum vitae commode
transegisse_ (Suet. Aug. 99); cf. Gay's epitaph, 'Life's a jest, etc.'. --
CORRUISSE: _i.e._ through fatigue; cf. _defetigationem_ in 85.

65. AT: see n. on 21. -- MORUM: cf. 7 _in moribus est culpa, non in
aetate_. -- EA VITIA: _i.e. ea alia vitia_. -- HABENT etc.: cf. Thucyd. 3,
44 εχοντες τι συγγνωμης. -- NON ... VIDEATUR: 'not well grounded indeed,
but such as it may seem possible to allow'. _Ille_ is often used with
_quidem_ in making concessions where the English idiom requires no pronoun.
Roby, 2259; Madvig, 489, _b_; Kennedy, 65, n. 2; A. 151, _e_; G. 292, Rem.
4; H. 450, 4, n. 2. -- CONTEMNI ... DESPICI: see n. on 43 _spreta et
contempta_. -- MORIBUS BONIS ET ARTIBUS: for the order of the words cf. n.
on 1 _animi tui_. -- IN VITA: 'in everyday life' -- ADELPHIS: _Adelphi_ =
αδελφοι, The Brothers; this play of Terence is still extant. -- DIRITAS:
'harshness of temper'; but Suet. Tib. 21 has _diritas morum_, and Varro
_scena quem senem Latina vidit dirissimum_. Both _dirus_ and _diritas_ are