To secure this the two sentences require emendation as follows: Est interdum praestare mercaturis rem quaerere, ni tam periculosum si t et item fenerari, si tam honestum si t and Nunc ut ad rem redeam, quo d prom(p)si institutum, principium hoc erit. 'Backing mercantile enterprise with capital can sometimes be to make capital but is always risky, usury is less risky but is virtually as disreputable as theft, high praise has traditionally gone to the good farmer for his skill, the merchant is plucky and enterprising too but as indicated open to hazard besides, farming is praiseworthy for various purely moral and social reasons but the alpha and omega of all the professions I have cited (including farming properly undertaken) is to make capital earn capital'. This undermines the coherence, logic, and point of Cato's train of thought. Oracul.The discussion as a whole raises literary and philological questions concerning Cato's thought and style, focussing on a locus classicus, the preface to his "De agri cultura." It is argued that the first and last of the six sentences of this at once laconic and highly mannered piece are corrupt in the MSS tradition. Upon this sand was it that Plutarch erected his feeble structure of a Plurality of Worlds for (in defect. 2.)(2) Quod nulla sit specialis res, cui non suo sub genere sint singularia multa similia: That there is no one thing special, to which under that kind, ma∣ny ingulars are not alike. fiitus Caussae ver, ex quibus est, fure omnino infinitae: necesse est. This Epicurus more then intimated, when He argued thus: Quippe Atomi, cum sint in∣finitae, per insinitatem spatiorum feruntur▪ & alibi aliae, ac prcu ab hoc ad fa∣bricationem mundorum infinitorum variè concurrunt. Universo infinito unum fieri mundum, qum in magno agro unam nasci spicam. Ut norma iuridica afferat quaedam gravia mansuraque, necesse est maiorem partem. Insomuch as where are Causes, there also must be Effects. Non loquimur solum de manuum opere vel de agro colendo, sed de qualibet. That Worlds there are infinite in multitude, is manifest from hence, that there are infinite Cau∣ses for Worlds: for, since this World is finite, and the Causes of which it was made, were infinite necessary it is that there be innite Worlds. Prorsus enim, ubi sunt Caussae, Effectus quoque ibi sunt. Nam si hic quidem mundus sit, fiitus Caussae verò, ex quibus est, fuêre omnino infinitae: necesse est mundi etiam sint infiniti. that there was an Infinity of Worlds are comprehended under these Two.(1) Quod Caussae sunt infinitae. The two main pillars on which the pi∣nion of a Plu∣rality of Worlds was anciently erect∣ed. ad Herodotum, apud Laertium) in these words:, Caeterum in universitate, seu natura rerum, infiniti sunt mundi, alij quidem si∣miles isti quem nos incolimus, alij verò dissimiles.The Reasons, or rather the Apparences of Reason, which seduced the Understandings of so many and great Philosophers into a judgment,Art. 9.) That Epicurus was a grand Patron of this Error, is conest by himself (in Epist. In 730 BCE, the Corinthians sailed out to settle and found new cities: first they took over Corfu from the Eretrians an island with good timber for ship construction xyla nia. And below them shall sit Anaximander, Anaximenes, Archelaus, Xenophon, Diogenes, Leu∣cippus, Democritus, and Zeno Eleates, as may be collected from the records of Stobaeus (Ecl. Here is the story of Navigare necesse est or To sail is necessary. Tam absurdum esse in Universo infinito unum fieri mundum, quàm in magno agro unam nasci spicam. of this perswasion were Plato, Heraclitus, and all the Stoicks.The Second species is made up of those, who dreamt of an Infinity of Worlds coexistent in an infinite space: and the chief seats in this Classis belong to Epicurus and Metrodorus, upon the last of which this peremptory saying is commonly fathered. that this praesent world, Phoenix-like, sprung up from the ruines of another praecedent and that the Ashes of this sall produce a Third, the Cinders of that a Fourth, &c. 13.)(2) Such as held a Plurality of worlds, not coexistent or synchronical, but successive▪ i. Among these the Principal were Heraclides, the Pythagoreans, and all the Sectators of Orphes: as they are enumerated by Plutarch (2 Placit. No were thse all of one Sect for some opinioned that there were many other Worlds synchronical in the Imaginary space, or on the outside of this: and others would admit of nothing, beyond Trismegistus Circle, or without the convex part of the Empyraeum but conceived that every Planet, nay, every Star, contained in this, was an intire and distinct World. 5.) earnestly labours to dissolve the contrary Arguments of Plato and Aristotle for the Unity of the World. defect.) affirms, that to have many Worlds at once, was consistent with the majey of the Divine Nature, and consonant to Human Reason and (in 1. Subdistinguished into two subordinate divisions: (1 Such as held a Plu∣rality of Worlds Coxisent among whom the most eminent was Plutarch, who (in lib.
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