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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
To my Oxford Classical Text of Cicero's De Officiis, published in 1994, I add two footnotes.
The first is an important citation of Cicero in Augustine, which I missed thanks to my own incompetence. Maurice Testard, in his Saint Augustin et Ciceron remarks in Augustine's Contra Iulianum opus imperfectum not only the passage I note at Off. 1.7, but also 4.43 ( =P.L. 45.1361). Migne's text (repunctuated) reads as follows:
Sequitur ergo ut uerecundiam deponas, ac manente amicitia cum
magistro Cynicis foedereris: quos tamen aliquorum, ut Cicero in
Officiis refert, etiam Stoicorum argumenta comitantur. Arguunt
quippe communem honestatem, ‘quod ea quae re turpia non sint, uerbo
5 flagitiosa ducamus; ilia autem quae re turpia sint, nominibus
appellemus suis. Latrocinium perpetrare, fraudem facere, adulterium
committere, re turpe est, sed dicitur non obscene: liberis operam
dare honestum est re, nomine obscenum. Pluraque in earn sententiam
ab eisdem’ inquit ‘contra uerecundiam disputantur. Nos autem
10 naturam sequamur, et omne quod abhorret ab oculorum auriumque approbatione fugiamus.’.
1 (Paris, 1958), ii.85–6. He also (pp. 53, 25) draws attention to probable echoes in Augustine of Off. 2.5 and 51.
2 As to the straightforward differences between Augustine and Cicero's tradition: a) uerbis is defended by nominibus suis below; b) the expansion of the verbs latrocinari fraudare adulterare seems wilful (Cicero does not use the verb perpetro); c) there seems no reason to prefer Augustine's order of liberis… obscenum.
3 Lindsay, W. M., Contractions in early Latin minuscule MSS. (St Andrews University Publications v, Oxford, 1908), pp. 36–7Google Scholar . I have profited from discussion of this passage with Andrew Dyck.