1); _voluntates_ (Fam. 11, 27,
2); _concordiam_. (Att. 1, 17, 10); in Phil. 3, 28 Cic. says of Antony that
he is _totus ex vitiis conglutinatus_. -- IAM: 'further', so below. --
CONGLUTINATIO: the noun occurs only here and Orat. 78 _c. verborum_. --
RELIQUUM: not infrequently, as here, used substantively with an adjective
modifier. -- SINE CAUSA: 'without sufficient reason'.

73. VETAT PYTHAGORAS etc.: the passage is from Plato, Phaedo 61 A-62 C.
Plato makes Socrates there profess to quote Philolaus, the Pythagorean;
Cic. therefore refers the doctrine to Pythagoras Cf. Tusc. 1, 74; Rep. 6,
15. The Stoics held the same view about suicide, which they authorized in
extreme cases, but much less freely than is commonly supposed; cf. Sen. Ep.
117, 22 _nihil mihi videtur turpius quam optare mortem_. See Zeller,
Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics, Ch. 12, C (2); cf. also Lecky, Hist. of
European Morals, I. p. 228 _et seq_. (Am. ed.) -- IMPERATORIS ...
PRAESIDIO: here Cic. seems to understand Plato's [Greek: phrourai] as
referring to warfare; in Tusc. and Rep. he understands it of a prison. --
SAPIENTIS: Solon was one of the 'Seven Sages of Greece'. -- ELOGIUM: the
distich is preserved by Plutarch, and runs thus: [Greek: mede moi aklaustos
thanatos moloi, alla philoisi Kalleipoimi thanon algea kai stonachas]. Cic.
thus translates it in Tusc. 1, 117 _Mors mea ne careat lacrimis, linquamus
amicis Maerorem, ut celebrent funera cum gemitu_. The epitaph of Ennius is
also quoted there and is declared to be better than that of Solon (cf.
Tusc. 1, 34). -- VOLT SE ESSE CARUM: 'he wishes to make out that he is
beloved'; _volt esse carus_ would have had quite a different sense. Cf.
Fin. 5, 13 _Strato physicum se volt_, with Madvig's n. -- HAUD SCIO AN: see
n. on 56. -- FAXIT: the subject is _quisquam_ understood from _nemo_. For
the form see A. 142, 128, _e_, 3; G. 191, 5; H. 240, 4. The end of the
epitaph is omitted here as in Tusc. 1, 117, but is given in Tusc. 1, 34
_cur? volito vivas per ora virum_. Notice the alliteration.

74. ISQUE: cf. n. on 13 _vixitque_. -- AUT OPTANDUS AUT NULLUS: cf. 66 _aut
neglegenda ... aut optanda; nullus_ almost = _non_ as in 67, but only in
the Letters does Cic. (imitating Plautus and the other dramatists) attach
_nullus_ in this sense to the name of a particular person; _e.g._ Att. 11,
24, 4 _Philotimus nullus venit_. -- SED ... ESSE: 'but we must con this
lesson from our youth up'. For the passive sense of