ty has great power. All women
abstain from wine.

And also if any woman was of bad character, her relations
used not to kiss her.

So petulance is derived from asking (_petendo_); wantonness
(_procacitas_) from _procando_, that is, from demanding.

VII. For I do not approve of the same nation being the ruler
and the farmer of lands. But both in private families and in
the affairs of the Commonwealth I look upon economy as a
revenue.

Faith (_fides_) appears to me to derive its name from that
being done (_fit_) which is said.

In a citizen of rank and noble birth, caressing manners,
display, and ambition are marks of levity.

Examine for a while the books on the Republic, and learn that
good men know no bound or limit in consulting the interests
of their country. See in that treatise with what praises
frugality, and continency, and fidelity to the marriage tie,
and chaste, honorable, and virtuous manners are extolled.

VIII. I marvel at the elegant choice, not only of the facts,
but of the language. If they dispute (_jurgant_). It is a
contest between well-wishers, not a quarrel between enemies,
that is called a dispute (_jurgium_),

Therefore the law considers that neighbors dispute
(_jurgare_) rather than quarrel (_litigare_) with one
another.

The bounds of man's care and of man's life are the same; so
by the pontifical law the sanctity of burial * * *

They put them to death, though innocent, because they had
left those men unburied whom they could not rescue from the
sea because of the violence of the storm.

Nor in this discussion have I advocated the cause of the
populace, but of the good.

For one cannot easily resist a powerful people if one gives
them either no rights at all or very little.

In which case I wish I could augur first with truth and
fidelity * * *

IX. Cicero saying this in vain, when speaking of poets, "And
when the shouts and approval of the people, as of some great
and wise teacher, has reached them, what darkness do they
bring on! what alarms do they cause! what desires do they
excite!"

Cicero says that if his life were extended to twice its
length, he should not have time to read the lyric poets.

X. As Scipio says in Cicero, "As they thought the whole