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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
ARGUMENTUM
Initio libri Cicero M. Brutum alloquens consilum suum ea, quae Graeci de philosophia scripsissent, Latinis litteris mandandi a vituperatoribus sic defendit, ut, quoniam universae philosophiae reprehensoribus in Hortensio responsum sit, contra eos autem, qui philosophiam non prorsus reiciant, sed minus studii et operae in ea ponendum putent, pugnare vix opus sit, eos maxime refellat, qui Graeca scripta legere malint, Latine conversa nolint (c. 1–3). Se vero, quemadmodum olim rei publicae res gerendo non defuerit, sic nunc, neglectis obtrectatoribus, elaboraturum, ut cives sint opera sua doctiores. Nec quidquam esse, quod potius scribere debeat, quam haec, in quibus gravissima, quae philosophiam contineat, quaestio de summo bono pertractetur (c. 4). Ut autem a facillimis ordiatur, ab Epicuro initium facit, cuius disciplinam accurate quondam a L. Torquato, cum C. Triarius adesset, apud se in Cumano expositam esse narrat et contra eam a se disputatum (c. 5). Nam cum Torquatus a Cicerone quaesisset, quae esset causa, cur minus Epicurum probaret, Cicero breviter omnem Epicuri philosophiam sic percurrit, ut demonstret, quid in physicis, dialecticis, ethicis eius desideret et reprehendat (c. 6–7). Defensionem Epicuri Torquatus suscipitet, ceteris in aliud tempus reiectis, eius de summo bono sententiam explicat (c. 8). Exponit igitur, Epicuri formam docendi sequens et saepe verbis eius utens, omne animal a primo ortu natura voluptatem appetere, dolorem respuere, ut appareat, illam per se expetendam, hunc reiciendum esse (c. 9). Sed it a probari voluptatem, improbari dolorem, ut delectus faciendus sit et saepe voluptates praetermittendae, ne maiores dolores consequantur, et dolores et pericula subeunda maiorum voluptatum causa (c. 10).
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