actea ubertas_." _Plenum ac
refertam_: n. on 11. _Dubitationem_: Halm with one MS., G, gives
_dubitantem_, Baiter _dubitanter_, Why alter? _Ars quaedam philosophiae_:
before these words all Halm's MSS., exc G, insert _disserendi_, probably
from the line above, Lipsius keeps it and ejects _philosophiae_, while
Lamb., Day read _philosophia_ in the nom. Varro, however, would never say
that philosophy became entirely dialectical in the hands of the old
Academics and Peripatetics. _Ars_ = [Greek: techne], a set of definite
rules, so Varro in Aug. (as above) speaks of the _certa dogmata_ of this
old school as opposed to the incertitude of the New Academy. _Descriptio_:
so Halm here, but often _discriptio_. The _Corp. Inscr._, vol. I. nos. 198
and 200, has thrice _discriptos_ or _discriptum_, the other spelling never.

Sec.18. _Ut mihi quidem videtur_: MSS. transpose _quidem_ and _videtur_, as in
44. _Quidem_, however nearly always comes closely after the pronoun, see
_M.D.F._ IV. 43, cf. also I. 71, III. 28, _Opusc._ I. 406. _Expetendarum
fugiendarumque_: [Greek: haireton kai pheukton], about which more in n. on
36. The Platonic and Aristotelian ethics have indeed an external
resemblance, but the ultimate bases of the two are quite different. In
rejecting the Idea of the Good, Aristotle did away with what Plato would
have considered most valuable in his system. The ideal theory, however, was
practically defunct in the time of Antiochus, so that the similarity
between the two schools seemed much greater than it was. _Non sus
Minervam_: a Greek proverb, cf. Theocr. _Id._ V. 23, _De Or._ II. 233, _Ad
Fam._ IX. 18, 3. Binder, in his German translation of the _Academica_, also
quotes Plutarch _Praec. Polit._ 7. _Inepte ... docet_: elliptic for _inepte
docet, quisquis docet_. _Nostra atque nostros_: few of the editors have
understood this. Atticus affects everything Athenian, and speaks as though
he were one of them; in Cic.'s letters to him the words "_tui cives_,"
meaning the Athenians, often occur. _Quid me putas_: i.e. _velle_.
_Exhibiturum_: Halm inserts _me_ before this from his one MS. G, evidently
emended here by its copyist. For the omission of _me_, cf. note on 7.

Sec.Sec.19--23. Part II. of Varro's Exposition: Antiochus' _Ethics_. Summary.
The threefold division of philosophy into [Greek: ethike, physike,
dialektike]. Goodness means obedience to nature, happiness the
acquisition of natural advantages. The