[79] Hoc primum: a sort of parenthesis, like “hoc tantum” v. 690. ‘This to begin with,’ as in declaring that he should not deny himself to be a Greek he had as it were given them incidentally his first instalment of truth.—‘Nec si’ &c. The sentiment, according to Macrob. Sat. 6. 1, is taken from Attius, Teleph. fr. 6, “Nam si a me regnum Fortuna atque opes Eripere quivit, at virtutem non quiit.”
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