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4001     Not,       2     |               clearly than the size of the sun, I am almost content (
4002     Not,       2     |                and especially by you". The threefold division was peculiarly
4003     Not,       2     |              cf. Sext. P.H. II. 13 (on the same subject) ‛οι Στωικοι
4004     Not,       2     |               ante: this is my em. for the MSS. velut illud ante, which
4005     Not,       2     |                variant "vel ut" taking the place of at; cf. a similar
4006     Not,       2     |               by Pliny (see Forc.) for the slope of a hill. Nulla crassitudo:
4007     Not,       2     |             Nulla crassitudo: in Sext. the επιφανεια is usually described
4008     Not,       2     |       difficult passage. Note (1) that the line is defined in Greek
4009     Not,       2     |                by preference described the point and surface negatively.
4010     Not,       2     |             seems to me strong against the introduction of longitudinem
4011     Not,       2     |            wanted in this clause as in the other two, he suggests quod
4012     Not,       2     |              ejects sine ulla. Observe the awkwardness of having the
4013     Not,       2     |              the awkwardness of having the line treated of after the
4014     Not,       2     |              the line treated of after the superficies, which has induced
4015     Not,       2     |              De Or. I. 187. Si adigam: the fine em. of Manut. for si
4016     Not,       2     |              for si adiiciamus of MSS. The construction adigere aliquem
4017     Not,       2     |           Sapientem nec prius: this is the "egregia lectio" of three
4018     Not,       2     |               read, thus was destroyed the whole point of the sentence,
4019     Not,       2     |           destroyed the whole point of the sentence, which is not that
4020     Not,       2     |            sentence, which is not that the sapiens will swear to the
4021     Not,       2     |              the sapiens will swear to the size of the sun after he
4022     Not,       2     |              will swear to the size of the sun after he has seen Archimedes
4023     Not,       2     |             his calculations, but that the sapiens, however true he
4024     Not,       2     |                 however true he admits the bases of proof to be which
4025     Not,       2     |                uses, will not swear to the truth of the elaborate conclusions
4026     Not,       2     |              not swear to the truth of the elaborate conclusions which
4027     Not,       2     |              arguing as in 128 against the absurdity of attaching one
4028     Not,       2     |         absurdity of attaching one and the same degree of certainty
4029     Not,       2     |            same degree of certainty to the simplest and the most complex
4030     Not,       2     |          certainty to the simplest and the most complex truths, and
4031     Not,       2     |           truths, and tries to condemn the Stoic sapiens out of his
4032     Not,       2     |             Munro on Lucr. I. 734, for the sense cf. 82, 123, 126,
4033     Not,       2     |               read elegerit, comparing the beginning of 119. Insipiens
4034     Not,       2     |                5, 5 gives as an ex. of the former An uxor ducenda,
4035     Not,       2     |             former An uxor ducenda, of the latter An Catoni ducenda.
4036     Not,       2     |                 118. For these physici the student must in general
4037     Not,       2     |                be genuine, since in it the supremacy among the seven
4038     Not,       2     |              in it the supremacy among the seven is assigned to Solon.
4039     Not,       2     |    ομοιομερειας. Eas primum, etc.: cf. the exordium of Anaxagoras given
4040     Not,       2     |                deum: Eleaticism was in the hands of Xenoph. mainly
4041     Not,       2     |            only hypothetically allowed the existence of the phenomenal
4042     Not,       2     |               allowed the existence of the phenomenal world, after
4043     Not,       2     |                 knowledge according to the Stoics was homogeneous throughout,
4044     Not,       2     |               intellegentia: reason is the essence of the universe
4045     Not,       2     |               reason is the essence of the universe with the Stoics,
4046     Not,       2     |           essence of the universe with the Stoics, cf. Zeller 138—9,
4047     Not,       2     |                29 of Book I. Permanet: the deity is to the Stoic πνευμα
4048     Not,       2     |              Permanet: the deity is to the Stoic πνευμα ενδιηκον δι ‛
4049     Not,       2     |                Zeller 147). Deflagret: the Stoics considered the κοσμος
4050     Not,       2     |       Deflagret: the Stoics considered the κοσμος φθαρτος, cf. Diog.
4051     Not,       2     |          ποταμος ειη ρεοντος). This is the constant judgment of Cic.
4052     Not,       2     |              Att. II. 1, and discusses the difficulty of applying this
4053     Not,       2     |             applying this criticism to the works of Aristotle which
4054     Not,       2     |           remarkable construction. For the Academic liberty see Introd.
4055     Not,       2     |           makes cur deus, etc. part of the same sentence. Bait. follows.
4056     Not,       2     |               not sponte alicuius. For the Stoic opinion that men are
4057     Not,       2     |             Stoic opinion that men are the chief care of Providence,
4058     Not,       2     |               I. 29 etc., also Zeller. The difficulties surrounding
4059     Not,       2     |               difficulties surrounding the opinion are treated of in
4060     Not,       2     |                III. 9—12 an example of the refutation of νοουμενα by
4061     Not,       2     |               I insert. Lactantius qu. the passage without perniciosa.
4062     Not,       2     |                wings, and a ship which the wings of a bee concealed.
4063     Not,       2     |           corporibus: cf. fragm. 28 of the Ac. Post., also N.D. I.
4064     Not,       2     |                 others opinantis. That the text is sound however may
4065     Not,       2     |          Hermann wishes to read onere. The phrase magnum onus is indeed
4066     Not,       2     |              116), but magnum opus, in the sense of "a great task,"
4067     Not,       2     |                 see n. on fragm. 29 of the Ac. Post.; for latent cf.
4068     Not,       2     |               Ut ... mutentur: exactly the same answer was made recently
4069     Not,       2     |              said to have assumed that the living protoplasm would
4070     Not,       2     |           living protoplasm would have the same properties as the dead.
4071     Not,       2     |            have the same properties as the dead. Media pendeat: cf.
4072     Not,       2     |                R. and P. 75), who give the name of αντιχθων to the
4073     Not,       2     |                the name of αντιχθων to the opposite side of the world.
4074     Not,       2     |                to the opposite side of the world. Diog. VIII. 26 (with
4075     Not,       2     |            Stob. Phys. XV. 7) mentions the theory as Pythagorean, but
4076     Not,       2     |              that Plato first invented the name. The word αντιπους
4077     Not,       2     |               first invented the name. The word αντιπους seems to occur
4078     Not,       2     |              first in Plat. Tim. 63 A. The existence of αντιποδες;
4079     Not,       2     |                of course bound up with the doctrine that the universe
4080     Not,       2     |              up with the doctrine that the universe or the world is
4081     Not,       2     |          doctrine that the universe or the world is a globe (which
4082     Not,       2     |              which is held by Plat. in the Tim. and by the Stoics,
4083     Not,       2     |               Plat. in the Tim. and by the Stoics, see Stob. Phys.
4084     Not,       2     |                 Diog. VII. 140), hence the early Christian writers
4085     Not,       2     |               Christian writers attack the two ideas together as unscriptural.
4086     Not,       2     |            Sext. A.M. X. 174 speaks of the followers of Aristarchus
4087     Not,       2     |               followers of Aristarchus the mathematician as holding
4088     Not,       2     |               mathematician as holding the same doctrine. It seems
4089     Not,       2     |        Theophrastus: who wrote much on the history of philosophy, see
4090     Not,       2     |               R. and P. 328. Platonem: the words of Plato (Tim. 40
4091     Not,       2     |           τεταμενον. Quid tu, Epicure: the connection is that Cic.,
4092     Not,       2     |                that Cic., having given the crotchets of other philosophers
4093     Not,       2     |               φυσικη, proceeds to give the peculiar crotchet of Epic.
4094     Not,       2     |              passage. Egone? ne bis is the em. of Lamb. for MSS. egone
4095     Not,       2     |              not quite satisfactory is the best yet given. Epicurus'
4096     Not,       2     |               strong relief by stating the outside limit to which Epic.
4097     Not,       2     |           prepared to go in estimating the sun's size, i.e. twice the
4098     Not,       2     |             the sun's size, i.e. twice the apparent size. Ne ... quidem
4099     Not,       2     |              animus: an enumeration of the different ancient theories
4100     Not,       2     |               speaks in P.H. II. 31 of the πολλη και ανηνυτος μαχη
4101     Not,       2     |               ανηνυτος μαχη concerning the soul. In P.H. II. 57 he
4102     Not,       2     |            this kind Cic. usually puts the corresponding case of quisnam,
4103     Not,       2     |               of quisnam, not quis, in the second question, as in Verr.
4104     Not,       2     |           question, as in Verr. IV. 5. The mutation of Augustine Contra
4105     Not,       2     |              probable that quemnam was the original reading here. Zumpt
4106     Not,       2     |        demagogue, and claims to follow the aristocracy of philosophy.
4107     Not,       2     |             aristocracy of philosophy. The attempts of the commentators
4108     Not,       2     |            philosophy. The attempts of the commentators to show that
4109     Not,       2     |           movebitur ... cedat: this is the theory of motion disproved
4110     Not,       2     |           cedat, Baiter following him. The text is sound. Trans. "whatever
4111     Not,       2     |               etc. this is all part of the personal convicium supposed
4112     Not,       2     |          directly addressed to Cic. by the Antiocheans, and beginning
4113     Not,       2     |           aliis cum his. Summus deus: "the highest form of the deity"
4114     Not,       2     |             deus: "the highest form of the deity" who was of course
4115     Not,       2     |               who was of course one in the Stoic system. Ether is the
4116     Not,       2     |             the Stoic system. Ether is the finest fire, and πυρ τεχνικον
4117     Not,       2     |             and πυρ τεχνικον is one of the definitions of the Stoic
4118     Not,       2     |              one of the definitions of the Stoic deity, cf. I. 29,
4119     Not,       2     |              Solem: as of course being the chief seat of fire. Solis
4120     Not,       2     |              Halm and Hermann leviter; the former reads inverecundior
4121     Not,       2     |           paene minima or something of the kind. Occultissimarum: n.
4122     Not,       2     |                edd. have se, quae. But the se comes in very awkwardly,
4123     Not,       2     |               and is not needed before the infinitive. Madv. indeed (
4124     Not,       2     |           after producing many exx. of the reflexive pronoun omitted,
4125     Not,       2     |           considero does not belong to the class of verbs with which
4126     Not,       2     |                 which surely stands on the same level. Non magis: so
4127     Not,       2     |           approbabit nunc lucere, etc. The sunlight was the stock example
4128     Not,       2     |          lucere, etc. The sunlight was the stock example of a most
4129     Not,       2     |           cognisable phenomenon; hence the Academics showed their hostility
4130     Not,       2     |              304 ed. Or.). Cornix: for the Stoic belief in divination
4131     Not,       2     |          Zeller 349—358. Signum illud: the xystus (9) was adorned with
4132     Not,       2     |         depending in different ways on the same word (definitio). M.
4133     Not,       2     |              exx. in M.D.F. I. 14. For the turn of expression cf. T.
4134     Not,       2     |               among philosophers about the ethical standard! I pass
4135     Not,       2     |               of Herillus but consider the discrepancies between Xenophanes,
4136     Not,       2     |                  If I desire to follow the Stoics, Antiochus will not
4137     Not,       2     |              while if I follow Polemo, the Stoics are irate (132).
4138     Not,       2     |               careful not to assent to the unknown, which is a dogma
4139     Not,       2     |               says Antiochus, "but not the greatest possible." How
4140     Not,       2     |              emotion as harmful, which the ancients thought natural
4141     Not,       2     |           useful (135). How absurd are the Stoic Paradoxes! (136) Albinus
4142     Not,       2     |             herself (139). When I hear the several pleadings of pleasure
4143     Not,       2     |            igitur comes fourth word in the clause; this is not uncommon
4144     Not,       2     |            Madv. on D.F. II. 35 spells the name), Pyrrho and Aristo
4145     Not,       2     |           translation of επιστημη. For the finis of Herillus see Madv.
4146     Not,       2     |              Xenophanes. Cic considers the Eleatic and Megarian schools
4147     Not,       2     |               related as to have, like the schools of Democritus and
4148     Not,       2     |        Epicurus, a continuous history. The Megarian system was indeed
4149     Not,       2     |              Socr. 238, R. and P. 182. The Erctrian school was closely
4150     Not,       2     |             was closely connected with the Megarian. Fuit: = natus
4151     Not,       2     |             who was a Peripatetic; for the difference see R. and P.
4152     Not,       2     |             see R. and P. 332, and for the doctrines of Aristo the
4153     Not,       2     |                the doctrines of Aristo the Chian ib. 358, Zeller 58
4154     Not,       2     |               but in 124 there is just the same change from Pyrrhoni
4155     Not,       2     |              πραιοτης to be a name for the sceptic τελος, but the name
4156     Not,       2     |             for the sceptic τελος, but the name scarcely occurs if
4157     Not,       2     |                cf. R. and P. 352 where the differences between the
4158     Not,       2     |                the differences between the two schools are clearly
4159     Not,       2     |          Zeller 447, 448. Callipho: as the genitive is Calliphontis,
4160     Not,       2     |             rule to write Calliphon in the nom; for this see Madv.
4161     Not,       2     |            D.F. II. 19, who also gives the chief authorities concerning
4162     Not,       2     |           vivere, etc.: in D.F. IV. 14 the finis of Polemo is stated
4163     Not,       2     |       interpretations of it are given, the last of which resembles
4164     Not,       2     |                last of which resembles the present passage—omnibus
4165     Not,       2     |                him it is attributed to the vetus Academia in I. 22,
4166     Not,       2     |               Academia in I. 22, where the words aut omnia aut maxima,
4167     Not,       2     |           Carneades. Antiochus probat: the germs of many Stoic and
4168     Not,       2     |            Halm refers to D.F. II. 44. The later Peripatetics were
4169     Not,       2     |            contra Stoicos disserebat). The finis therefore, thus stated,
4170     Not,       2     |             there is a similar play on the legal words finis terminus
4171     Not,       2     |              Omnis ratio etc.: this is the constant language of the
4172     Not,       2     |               the constant language of the later Greek philosophy;
4173     Not,       2     |                 a Stoic term turned on the Stoics, see I. 37. Academicos
4174     Not,       2     |                this book. Dicenda: for the omission of the verb with
4175     Not,       2     |           Dicenda: for the omission of the verb with the gerundive (
4176     Not,       2     |              omission of the verb with the gerundive (which occurs
4177     Not,       2     |             who how ever unduly limits the usage. Hic igitur ... prudentior:
4178     Not,       2     |             adsentietur, thinking that the last two letters were first
4179     Not,       2     |             that then adsentiet, under the attraction of the s following,
4180     Not,       2     |                under the attraction of the s following, passed into
4181     Not,       2     |              24 efficerentur), and all the changes involved in my conj.
4182     Not,       2     |                 for si numquam of MSS. The question uter est prudentior
4183     Not,       2     |              is intended to press home the dilemma in which Cicero
4184     Not,       2     |                which Cicero has placed the supposed sapiens. All the
4185     Not,       2     |              the supposed sapiens. All the other emendations I have
4186     Not,       2     |             quod quae: so Guietus with the approval of Madv. (Em. 203)
4187     Not,       2     |         writing Quid? si quae removing the stop at paria, and make
4188     Not,       2     |        relative pronouns come together the MSS. often omit one. Dicebas:
4189     Not,       2     |          without other advantages. For the omission of est after the
4190     Not,       2     |              the omission of est after the emphatic ille cf. 59, n.
4191     Not,       2     |              by Bait., inserts contra, the need for which I fail to
4192     Not,       2     |            efferri: I. 38. Probabilia: the removal of passion and delight
4193     Not,       2     |              ed. 2, who is severe upon the reading of Orelli (still
4194     Not,       2     |             deleta sit? which involves the use of nec for ne ... quidem.
4195     Not,       2     |                quidem. I have followed the reading of Madv. in his
4196     Not,       2     |               of Madv. in his Em., not the one he gives (after Davies)
4197     Not,       2     |          Baiter. Mine is rather nearer the MSS. Decreta: some MSS.
4198     Not,       2     |             Crantoris: sc. librum, for the omission of which see n.
4199     Not,       2     |             come together in Cic., and the usage is rather colloquial;
4200     Not,       2     |            Seneca De Ira III. 3, where the saying is attributed to
4201     Not,       2     |               virtutis). Dicebant: for the repetition of this word
4202     Not,       2     |              136. Sunt enim Socratica: the Socratic origin of the Stoic
4203     Not,       2     |                 the Socratic origin of the Stoic paradoxes is affirmed
4204     Not,       2     |        published a work different from the Paradoxa, which we possess:
4205     Not,       2     |               Bait., and Halm's ed. of the Phil. works (1861), p. 994.
4206     Not,       2     |               επος ειπειν. Voltis: cf. the Antiochean opinion in I.
4207     Not,       2     |           starent: "were in waiting on the senate;" cf. such phrases
4208     Not,       2     |                cyathum, etc. Carneade: the vocative is Carneades in
4209     Not,       2     |                conj. verenti, removing the stop at voltis. Opinationem:
4210     Not,       2     |                at voltis. Opinationem: the οιησιν of Sext., e.g. P.
4211     Not,       2     |          concerning," but "from among" the different fines; otherwise
4212     Not,       2     |              which Epicurus held to be the highest pleasure. Cum honestate:
4213     Not,       2     |            D.F. IV. 59, V. 58 confuses the Stoic πρωτα κατα φυσιν with
4214     Not,       2     |          σωματος αγαθα και τα εκτος of the Peripatetics, for which
4215     Not,       2     |               which see I. 19. More on the subject in Madvig's fourth
4216     Not,       2     |            Madvig's fourth Excursus to the D.F. Relinquit: Orelli relinqui
4217     Not,       2     |                Orelli relinqui against the MSS.~§139. Polemonis ...
4218     Not,       2     |      probabilius; adhuc for etiam with the comparative does not occur
4219     Not,       2     |        comparative does not occur till the silver writers. Labor eo:
4220     Not,       2     |          βοσκηματων βιος in Aristotle. The meaning of pecus is well
4221     Not,       2     |           Zeller 176 sq. Animum solum: the same criticism is applied
4222     Not,       2     |                 25. Ut ... sequar: for the repeated ut see D.F. V.
4223     Not,       2     |                 obs. 2. Bait. brackets the second ut with Lamb. Carneades ...
4224     Not,       2     |               Istum finem: MSS. ipsum; the two words are often confused,
4225     Not,       2     |                 Obversetur: Halm takes the conj. of Lamb., adversetur.
4226     Not,       2     |            conj. of Lamb., adversetur. The MSS. reading gives excellent
4227     Not,       2     |              Tu ... copulabis: this is the feigned expostulation of
4228     Not,       2     |               discrimine: for this see the explanation of nihil interesse
4229     Not,       2     |        Dialectic, note how Protagoras, the Cyrenaics, Epicurus, and
4230     Not,       2     |             Why, he never even follows the vetus Academia, and never
4231     Not,       2     |          themselves cannot agree about the very elements of their art (
4232     Not,       2     |                 Lucullus, do you rouse the mob against me like a seditious
4233     Not,       2     |            telling them I do away with the arts altogether? When you
4234     Not,       2     |          altogether? When you have got the crowd together, I will point
4235     Not,       2     |              considered with a view to the choice of the supposed sapiens,
4236     Not,       2     |                a view to the choice of the supposed sapiens, as was
4237     Not,       2     |               Physics in 116—128. With the enumeration of conflicting
4238     Not,       2     |             schools here given compare the one Sextus gives in A.M.
4239     Not,       2     |               403 sq. Constituit: note the constr. with in, like ponere
4240     Not,       2     |         Several MSS. have cognitionis, the two words are frequently
4241     Not,       2     |                is almost excluded from the so-called vetus Academia,
4242     Not,       2     |             119, n. Pedem nusquam: for the ellipse cf. 58, 116, Pro
4243     Not,       2     |                 Abutimur: this verb in the rhetorical writers means
4244     Not,       2     |                1, 12. This is probably the meaning here; "do we use
4245     Not,       2     |               meaning here; "do we use the name Academic in a non natural
4246     Not,       2     |        dialectician, pupil of Diodorus the Megarian, mentioned also
4247     Not,       2     |        Megarian, mentioned also in 75. The dispute between Diodorus
4248     Not,       2     |                A.M. VIII. 115—117 with the same purpose as here, see
4249     Not,       2     |             also Zeller 39. Antipater: the Stoic of Tarsus, who succeeded
4250     Not,       2     |       succeeded Diogenes Babylonius in the headship of the school.
4251     Not,       2     |          Babylonius in the headship of the school. Archidemus: several
4252     Not,       2     |              68, 84. Opiniosissimi: so the MSS. I cannot think that
4253     Not,       2     |               MSS. I cannot think that the word is wrong, though all
4254     Not,       2     |              necessary. I believe that the word opiniosissimi (an adj.
4255     Not,       2     |              Cic.) was manufactured on the spur of the moment, in order
4256     Not,       2     |            manufactured on the spur of the moment, in order to ridicule
4257     Not,       2     |            full of opinio or δοξα—just the imputation which, as Stoics,
4258     Not,       2     |               called by and held under the presidency of magistrates,
4259     Not,       2     |           magistrates, all of whom had the right to summon them, the
4260     Not,       2     |              the right to summon them, the right of the tribune being
4261     Not,       2     |              summon them, the right of the tribune being under fewer
4262     Not,       2     |                fewer restrictions than the right of the others. Occludi
4263     Not,       2     |         restrictions than the right of the others. Occludi tabernas
4264     Not,       2     |                in order of course that the artisans might all be at
4265     Not,       2     |               artisans might all be at the meeting, for this see Liv.
4266     Not,       2     |                 31, IX. 7, and compare the cry "to your tents, O Israel"
4267     Not,       2     |               your tents, O Israel" in the Bible. Artificia: n. on
4268     Not,       2     |               was probably thinking of the use to which he himself
4269     Not,       2     |            καταληψις when it arises in the mind of a φαυλος is mere
4270     Not,       2     |              83, where it is said that the φαυλος is capable of το
4271     Not,       2     |              but not of αληθεια, which the σοφος alone has. Visum ...
4272     Not,       2     |               has. Visum ... adsensus: the Stoics as we saw (II. 38,
4273     Not,       2     |        sensations into two parts; with the Academic and other schools
4274     Not,       2     |                is frequent in Plato in the sense "to seize firmly with
4275     Not,       2     |            sense "to seize firmly with the mind." Adverterat: the best
4276     Not,       2     |            with the mind." Adverterat: the best MSS. give merely adverat,
4277     Not,       2     |            give merely adverat, but on the margin admoverat which Halm
4278     Not,       2     |            were not σοφοι according to the Stoics, but merely were
4279     Not,       2     |                n. on. I. 5. Arbitrari: the original meaning of this
4280     Not,       2     |               non merely, but I prefer the reading I have given because
4281     Not,       2     |           Cicero's fondness for making the ut follow closely on the
4282     Not,       2     |               the ut follow closely on the negative: for this see Madv.
4283     Not,       2     |                see Introd. 50, and for the expression 18. Opinaturum:
4284     Not,       2     |               Bait. I am not sure that the MSS. reading is wrong. The
4285     Not,       2     |             the MSS. reading is wrong. The difficulty is essentially
4286     Not,       2     |              difficulty is essentially the same as that involved in
4287     Not,       2     |                and a practical belief. The dogma is that assent (meaning
4288     Not,       2     |                approving (comprobans). The practice is to give assent (
4289     Not,       2     |             modified assent). There is the same contrast in 104 between
4290     Not,       2     |                tenere. I may note that the word alteri (cf. altero
4291     Not,       2     |               104) need not imply that the dogma and the practice are
4292     Not,       2     |               imply that the dogma and the practice are irreconcilable;
4293     Not,       2     |               in their introduction of the negative. Nec eam admodum:
4294     Not,       2     |             interpreting this passage. The word is used with a double
4295     Not,       2     |                adsensus and ancora; in the first way we have had tollere
4296     Not,       2     |              this book; with regard to the second meaning, cf. Caes.
4297     Not,       2     |              17, 1, where it occurs in the sense "to get on," "to proceed,"
4298     Not,       2     |               without any reference to the sea. (The exx. are from
4299     Not,       2     |             any reference to the sea. (The exx. are from Forc.) This
4300     Not,       2     |              to manage a joke by using the word inhibendum, which had
4301     Not,       2     |           finding that he had mistaken the meaning of the word, substituted
4302     Not,       2     |                mistaken the meaning of the word, substituted tollendum.~