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  1     Pre              |        of the processes by which they are obtained is worthless
  2     Pre              |        smaller acquaintance than they ought to have with the peculiarities
  3     Pre              |       themselves the information they require, and have only dwelt
  4     Pre              |      withhold from students help they so greatly need. Moreover,
  5     Int,       I     |         who accompanied him, and they probably touched there for
  6     Int,       I     |          few days56. From thence they went to Athens, where Cicero
  7     Int,      II     | necessary to know, not merely as they came from the hands of their
  8     Int,      II     |        of their founders, but as they existed in Cicero's age;
  9     Int,      II     |       their freedom of judgment. They are not compelled to defend
 10     Int,      II     |        defend an opinion whether they will or no, merely because
 11     Int,      II     | pronounced boldly for Carneades, they would naturally regard him
 12     Int,      II     |      like shame of the treatment they had received at the hands
 13     Int,      II     |        expression to a fear lest they should be the only true
 14     Int,      II     |        although he conceded that they were Socratic107. Again,
 15     Int,      II     |      many Stoic doctrines, which they gave out as Aristotelian.
 16     Int,      II     |        was different. In physics they stood absolutely alone,
 17     Int,      II     |      grossly unintellectual, and they discarded mathematics. Their
 18     Int,      II     |          but loathing, dialectic they did not use, and they crowned
 19     Int,      II     |  dialectic they did not use, and they crowned all their errors
 20     Int,      II     |          could never pardon, for they were completely indifferent
 21     Int,     III     |        Cicero's strong language, they took possession of the whole
 22     Int,      IV     |      reproach him with inaction, they could not read the numerous
 23     Int,      IV     |   συνταγματα in question is that they are simply the two books,
 24     Int,      IV     |     beyond all doubt, showing as they do that the Hortensius had
 25     Int,      IV     |          Lucullus, and the parts they were made to take in difficult
 26     Int,      IV     |              So little of it did they possess that they could
 27     Int,      IV     |         it did they possess that they could never even have dreamed
 28     Int,      IV     |         dreamed of the doctrines they had been made in the first
 29     Int,      IV     |     intentions of the donor till they were on the point of being
 30     Int,      IV     |   getting into circulation until they could meet one another in
 31     Int,      IV     |          asks the people on whom they would rely if Pompey, with
 32     Int,      IV     |          approximation300. Still they are all cold, forced and
 33     Int,      IV     |          Plancus, and Trebatius. They all show a fear of giving
 34     Int,      IV(300)|                 Ad Fam. IX. 1—8. They are the only letters from
 35     Not,       1     |       echo expels the words. Yet they are thoroughly like Cic. (
 36     Not,       1     |      Plato's dialogues as though they were authentic reports of
 37     Not,       1     |        to be Peripatetic, if so, they must belong only to the
 38     Not,       1     |           what are these cetera? They form portion of the εκτος
 39     Not,       1     |     actually found apart, though they are thought of as separate.
 40     Not,       1     |        from the words with which they are syntactically connected,
 41     Not,       1     |      from Stoic sources, even if they be got at second hand through
 42     Not,       1     |          Reason is the Universe, they sometimes speak of it as
 43     Not,       1     |         knowledge on the senses, they did not make the senses
 44     Not,       1     |        and true (30). The senses they thought heavy and clogged
 45     Not,       1     |    reasonings of the mind, hence they defined everything about
 46     Not,       1     |   defined everything about which they argued, and also used verbal
 47     Not,       1     |         explanations, from which they drew proofs. In these two
 48     Not,       1     |        their dialectic, to which they added persuasive rhetoric (
 49     Not,       1     |          proceeded to prove that they had never properly belonged
 50     Not,       1     |       mere nodes, and with which they revolve. How natural then,
 51     Not,       2     |         are difficult to fix, as they apply equally well to the
 52     Not,       2     |       dialogues of the kind. Are they then, when they meet, to
 53     Not,       2     |        kind. Are they then, when they meet, to be silent or to
 54     Not,       2     |         such knowledge show that they can make their envy reach
 55     Not,       2     |   Academic. This is natural, but they must know that Academicism
 56     Not,       2     |           8). The dogmatists say they bow to the authority of
 57     Not,       2     |         of the wise man. How can they find out the wise man without
 58     Not,       2     |        potuerunt, "granting that they had the ability, they gained
 59     Not,       2     |       that they had the ability, they gained it by hearing all
 60     Not,       2     |          now as a matter of fact they did decide on a single hearing,"
 61     Not,       2     |         Quam adamaverunt: "which they have learned to love;" the
 62     Not,       2     | statements of Catulus the elder, they are made clear by 18. Academicos:
 63     Not,       2     |       too dogmatic (14). Even if they were often in doubt, do
 64     Not,       2     | accusative in that sense, though they do occasionally use the
 65     Not,       2     |        Gracchus seems to be that they were consulted by him as
 66     Not,       2     |        not imply so much, and if they did, Cic. may be allowed
 67     Not,       2     |     Negavissent: "had denied, as they said." Tollendus est: a
 68     Not,       2     |      attempted to disprove this; they never tried to show that
 69     Not,       2     |    Arcesilas and Carneades, that they were apostles of doubt,
 70     Not,       2     |          healthy and unimpaired, they give perfectly true information
 71     Not,       2     |      perceptions of sense, since they come through sense, these
 72     Not,       2     |       held to be philosophers if they had not even confidence
 73     Not,       2     |     conclusion of the syllogism, they did not use the verb συμπεραινειν
 74     Not,       2     |          the Academics would say they did not hold this δογμα
 75     Not,       2     |         in reality what in words they professed it not to be,
 76     Not,       2     |       are in no sense arguments, they are mere assertions, as
 77     Not,       2     |        with the former (32). Now they on the one hand profess
 78     Not,       2     |         guess work (35). Even if they only profess to decide after
 79     Not,       2     |      examined; the time at which they occur, or during which they
 80     Not,       2     |      they occur, or during which they continue; the condition
 81     Not,       2     |        of the space within which they occur, and the apparent
 82     Not,       2     |    quidem: "which is indeed what they call 'true'." Impressum:
 83     Not,       2     |     tollere).~§35. Neminem etc.: they are content to make strong
 84     Not,       2     | Academics have a regular method. They first give a general definition
 85     Not,       2     |      classes of sensations. Then they put forward their two strong
 86     Not,       2     |   distinguish between them. Then they proceed. Sensations are
 87     Not,       2     | perception (40). Two admissions, they say, are universally made, (
 88     Not,       2     |         following two assertions they strive to prove, (1) sensations
 89     Not,       2     |        prove these propositions, they divide perceptions into
 90     Not,       2     |          sensations; after which they show that credit cannot
 91     Not,       2     |          which cause sensations, they simply maintained that,
 92     Not,       2     |        is due to two causes, (1) they do not make a serious endeavour
 93     Not,       2     |        the other? (47). Further, they urge that a phantom sensation
 94     Not,       2     |          one. The dogmatists say they admit that mere phantom
 95     Not,       2     |       command assent. Why should they not admit that they command
 96     Not,       2     |       should they not admit that they command assent when they
 97     Not,       2     |         they command assent when they so closely resemble real
 98     Not,       2     |         say our opponents, while they last our dreaming sensations
 99     Not,       2     |         we deny (52). "But," say they, "you allow that the wise
100     Not,       2     |       misunderstood, I note that they can be most rationally explained
101     Not,       2     |          seals is childish (54). They press into their service
102     Not,       2     |          not. Another thing that they say is absurd, viz. that
103     Not,       2     |          undisturbed" sensations they profess to follow. The doctrine
104     Not,       2     |    Arcesilas (59). What nonsense they talk about inquiring after
105     Not,       2     |      inappropriate. Trans. here "they do not see this either,"
106     Not,       2     |         the sceptics would deny. They refused to discuss the nature
107     Not,       2     |          polemically used, while they had an esoteric dogmatic
108     Not,       2     |        without comment, although they write deus aliqui in 19.
109     Not,       2     |         according to Festus s.v. They were probably named from
110     Not,       2     |          Cyrenaics too held that they knew nothing about things
111     Not,       2     |         charged with scepticism. They advanced indeed arguments
112     Not,       2     |       The dialogues of search as they are called, while exposing
113     Not,       2     |  resemblances exist. Never mind, they seem to exist and that is
114     Not,       2     |     their sensations at the time they were affected? (90)~§79.
115     Not,       2     |       dealt with the appearances they present, το γαρ αληθες και
116     Not,       2     |  differat here, which shows that they are related. Cf. the elliptic
117     Not,       2     |         relative terms as though they were absolute. Quatenus:
118     Not,       2     |       teachers, great men though they be, he must reject (118).
119     Not,       2     |      physical subjects, why will they not allow me to differ from
120     Not,       2     |     Zeller 175, N.D. II. 91—127. They supply in Sext. P.H. I.
121     Not,       2     |        Zeno agree. For instance, they regard emotion as harmful,
122     Not,       2     | Polycletus like this conclusion? They would prefer mine, to which
123     Not,       2     |     imputation which, as Stoics, they would most repel. Hermann'
124     Not,       2     |       Alterthumer II. 663, ed 2. They were called by and held
125     Not,       2     |         nobis quidem: "nor would they be angry;" cf. n. on. I.