I think
improbable. _Hodie_: Drakenborch on Livy V. 27 wants to read _hodieque_,
which however, is not Ciceronian. In passages like _De Or._ I. 103 and
_Verr._ V. 64, the _que_ connects clauses and does not modify _hodie_. On
this subject see Madv. _Opuscula_ I. 390. _Etsi_: _M.D.F._ V. 68, shows
that in Cic. a parenthetic clause with _etsi_ always has a common verb with
its principal clause; a rule not observed by the silver writers. The same
holds of _quamquam_, see n. on I. 5. _Calumnia_: properly a fraudulent use
of litigation, [Greek: sykophantia]. The chief enemy was the infamous
Memmius who prosecuted him. _In urbem_: until his triumph Luc. would remain
outside the city. _Profuisset_: this ought properly to be _profuerit_, but
the conditional _dicerem_ changes it. _Potius ... quam ... communicem_: n.
on 23.

Sec.4. _Sunt ... celebrata_: cf. I. 11, 17 for the collocation of the words.
_Externa ... interiora_: cf. _De Div._ II. 124 _sed haec quoque in promptu,
nunc interiora videamus_. _Pro quaestore_: for this Faber wrote _quaestor_,
arguing that as Luc. was Sulla's _quaestor_ and Sulla sent him to Egypt, he
could not be _pro quaestor_. But surely after the first year he would be
_pro quaestor_. Dav. reads _quaestor_ here and 11, saying "_veterem
lectionem iugulavit Faber_". _Ea memoria ... quam_: Bentl., Halm, Baiter
give _qua_, Halm refers to Bentl. on Hor. _Sat._ I. 6, 15. A passage like
ours is _D.F._ I. 29, _ista sis aequitate, quam ostendis_, where one MS.
has _qua_. Read Madvig's lucid note there. _De quibus audiebat_: Madv.
_Em._ 121 makes this equivalent to _de eis rebus de quibus_, the necessity
of which explanation, though approved by Halm, I fail to see. The form of
expression is very common in Cic., and the relative always refers to an
actually expressed antecedent, cf. e.g. _Cat. Mai._ 83. I take _quibus_ as
simply = _libris_.

Sec.5. _Ac_: strong, as often, = [Greek: kai men]. _Personarum_: public
characters, [Greek: prosopon poleos] (_Ad. Fam._ XV. 17, 2), so _personas_
6. _Multi ... plures_: cf. Introd. p. 30. _Reliqui_: many MSS. insert _qui_
by _dittographia_, as I think, though Halm, as well as Bait., retains it.
On the retention or omission of this _qui_ will depend the choice of
_putant_ or _putent_ below. _Earum rerum disputationem_: for _disp._
followed by genitive see n. on I. 33. _Non ita decoram_: for this feeling
see Introd. p. 30. For _non ita_ cf. the Lowland Scottish "no just sae".