She moves in another line of the zodiac nearer the earth.
[96] According to the doctrines of Epicurus, none of these bodies themselves are clearly seen, but _simulacra ex corporibus effluentia_.
[97] Epicurus taught his disciples in a garden.
[98] By the word _Deus_, as often used by our author, we are to understand all the Gods in that theology then treated of, and not a single personal Deity.
[99] The best commentators on this passage agree that Cicero does not mean that Aristotle affirmed that there was no such person as Orpheus, but that there was no such poet, and that the verse called Orphic was said to be the invention of another.

The passage of Aristotle to which Cicero here alludes has, as Dr.Davis observes, been long lost.
[100] A just proportion between the different sorts of beings.
[101] Some give _quos non pudeat earum Epicuri vocum;_ but the best copies have not _non;_ nor would it be consistent with Cotta to say _quos non pudeat_, for he throughout represents Velleius as a perfect Epicurean in every article.
[102] His country was Abdera, the natives of which were remarkable for their stupidity.
[103] This passage will not admit of a translation answerable to the sense of the original.

Cicero says the word _amicitia_ (friendship) is derived from _amor_ (love or affection).
[104] This manner of speaking of Jupiter frequently occurs in Homer, -- --[Greek: pater andron te theon te,] and has been used by Virgil and other poets since Ennius.
[105] Perses, or Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, was taken by Cnaeus Octavius, the praetor, and brought as prisoner to Paullus AEmilius, 167 B.C.
[106] An exemption from serving in the wars, and from paying public taxes.
[107] Mopsus.

There were two soothsayers of this name: the first was one of the Lapithae, son of Ampycus and Chloris, called also the son of Apollo and Hienantis; the other a son of Apollo and Manto, who is said to have founded Mallus, in Asia Minor, where his oracle existed as late as the time of Strabo.
[108] Tiresias was the great Theban prophet at the time of the war of the Seven against Thebes.
[109] Amphiaraus was King of Argos (he had been one of the Argonauts also).

He was killed after the war of the Seven against Thebes, which he was compelled to join in by the treachery of his wife Eriphyle, by the earth opening and swallowing him up as he was fleeing from Periclymenus.
[110] Calchas was the prophet of the Grecian army at the siege of Troy.
[111] Helenus was a son of Priam and Hecuba.