Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: et (ceteris): et is correlative with et folio wing fuisse. 32. humanum: kindly. 26. 1. consaeptum agrum: park; this phrase is used to render the Greek TrapdSfiiros; hence the absence of et, before consitum. consitum: planted with trees, in rows or groups. 2. proceritates: the plural, because there were many trees (arbores), each of which wasprocero. 3. in quincuncem: quincunx was the name of the five-spot on a die
Hence in quincuncem is used to designate an arrangement of trees by which the lines run diagonally as in the following diagram: 4. subactam: i.e. carefully cultivated. Cf. p. 22, 1. 20. puram: i.e. free from weeds, stones, etc. 5. afflarentur: were wafted. eum dixissc: dependent on loquitur above. 7. dimensa atque discripta: laid out and arranged; note the passive use of the deponent dimensa; cf. adeptam, p. 3, 1. 1. 8. ego ista sum dimensus: ego is emphatic; I am the one who laid out these things that you see. mei sunt 01 dines, etc.: mine are the rows, mine the arrangement. 11. purpuram: i.e. his purple robe, nitorem corporis: the elegance of his person. 12. multo auro multisque gemmis: Ablative of Quality. Rite, etc.: with reason do they call you happy. 13. ferunt: the subject is general, people. quoniam virtuti tuae fortuna coniuncta est: as shown by the word order, the emphasis rests upon virtuti, with reason do people call you happy, since it is to inherent worth (virtus) that your prosperity is joined. Cyrus’s virtus is recognized by Lysander in his personal attention to the improvement of his estate; fortunarefers to his advantages as a prince, purpura, nitor, gemmae, durum. See Critical Appendix. 14. Hac igitur fortuna: this now is the happy lot; igitnr, as so frequently, simply resumes the substance of the f…
