[733] Hinc, from this influence of the body. ‘Voluptas,’ ‘cupiditas,’ ‘aegritudo,’ and ‘metus’ form the fourfold division of ‘perturbationes’ in Cic. Tusc. 3. 11, the two first expressing the impression made by a great good, present or future, the two last that made by a great evil, present or future. The same division occurs Hor. 1 Ep. 6. 12, “Gaudeat an doleat, cupiat metuatne, quid ad rem?” where, as here, it is used as a philosophical commonplace. Cerda traces it in the Greek philosophers, including Plato. ‘Auras’ = ‘caelum,’ as Henry observes, though he is hypercritical in condemning Heyne'sexplanation ‘lucem,’ which was doubtless meant, not as a lexicographical explanation, but merely as a substantial equivalent in the present context.
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