II. 4. Monumentis:  this, and not monimentis (Halm) or monementis, is probably the right spelling; cf.  Corss.  II. 314. Ortam a:  Cic. always writes the prep. after ortus; cf. M.D.F. V. 69. Genus:  regularly used by Cic. as opus by Quintilian to mean “department of literature.” Ea res:  one of Halm’s MSS. followed by Baiter has ars; on the other hand Bentley (if the amicus so often quoted in Davies’ notes be really he) reads artibus for rebus below.  The slight variation, however, from res to artibus is such as Cic. loves. Ceteris:  the spelling caeteris (Klotz) is absolutely wrong, cf.  Corss.  I. 325. Antecedat:  some MSS. give antecellat. a frequent variant, cf. De Off. I. 105

Sec.4. Deliberatam—­agitatam:  Cic. as usual exaggerates the knowledge possessed by the personae of the dialogue; cf.  Introd. p. 38, De Or. II. 1. In promptu:  so II. 10. Quod ista ipsa ... cogitavi:  Goer., who half a page back had made merry over the gloss hunters, here himself scented a miserable gloss; Schutz, Goerenz’s echo expels the words.  Yet they are thoroughly like Cic. (cf. De Div. II. 1, Cat.  Mai. 38), and moreover nothing is more Ciceronian than the repetition of words and clauses in slightly altered forms.  The reason here is partly the intense desire to flatter Varro. Si qui ... si essent:  the first si has really no conditional force, si qui like [Greek:  eitines] merely means “all who,” for a strong instance see Ad Fam. I. 9, 13, ed Nobbe, si accusandi sunt, si qui pertimuerunt. Ea nolui scribere, etc.:  very similar expressions occur in the prologue to D.F. I., which should be compared with this prologue throughout.

Sec.5. Vides ... didicisti:  MSS. have vides autem eadem ipse didicisti enim.  My reading is that of Dav. followed by Baiter.  Halm, after Christ, has vides autem ipse—­didicisti enim eadem—­non posse, etc. Similis:  Halm, in deference to MSS., makes Cic. write i and e indiscriminately in the acc. plur. of i stems.  I shall write i everywhere, we shall thus, I believe, be far nearer Cicero’s real writing.  Though I do not presume to say that his usage did not vary, he must in the vast majority of instances have written i, see Corss.  I. 738—­744. Amafinii aut Rabirii:  cf.  Introd. p. 26. Definiunt ... partiuntur:  n. on 32. Interrogatione:  Faber saw this to be right, but a number of later scholars alter it, e.g.  Bentl. argumentatione, Ernesti ratione.  But the word as it stands has exactly the meaning these alterations are intended to secure. Interrogatio is merely the conclusio or syllogism put as a series of questions.  Cf. Paradoxa 2, with T.D. II. 42 which will