f. 135, 146, and _M.D.F._ I. 41. The future
tense is odd and unlike Cic. Lamb. wrote _dicimus_, I would rather read
_dicamus_; cf. n. on 29. _Per se_: [Greek: kath' auten], there is no need
to read _propter_, as Lamb. _Ut virtutem efficiat_: note that virtue is
throughout this exposition treated as the result of the exercise of the
_reason_. _Evertunt_: cf. _eversio_ in 99. _Animal ... animo_: Cic. allows
_animus_ to all animals, not merely _anima_; see Madv. _D.F._ V. 38. The
rule given by Forc. s.v. _animans_ is therefore wrong. _Temeritate_:
[Greek: propeteia], which occurs _passim_ in Sext. The word, which is
constantly hurled at the dogmatists by the sceptics, is here put by way of
retort. So in Sext. _Adv. Math._ VII. 260, the sceptic is called [Greek:
embrontetos] for rejecting the [Greek: kataleptike phantasia].
Sec.32. _Incerta_: [Greek: adela]. _Democritus_: cf. I. 44. _Quae ...
abstruserit_: "_because_ she has hidden." _Alii autem_: note the ellipse of
the verb, and cf. I. 2. _Etiam queruntur_: "actually complain;" "go so far
as to complain." _Inter incertum_: cf. Numenius in Euseb. _Pr. Ev._ XIV. 7,
12, [Greek: diaphoran einai adelou kai akataleptou, kai panta men einai
akatalepta ou panta de adela] (quoted as from Carneades), also 54 of this
book. _Docere_: "to prove," cf. n. on 121. _Qui haec distinguunt_: the
followers of Carneades rather than those of Arcesilas; cf. n. on I. 45.
_Stellarum numerus_: this typical uncertainty is constantly referred to in
Sext. e.g. _P.H_. II. 90, 98, _A.M_. VII. 243, VIII. 147, 317; where it is
reckoned among things [Greek: aionion echonta agnosian]. So in the Psalms,
God only "telleth the number of the stars;" cf. 110. _Aliquos_:
contemptuous; [Greek: aponenoemenous tinas]. Cf. _Parad._ 33 _agrestis
aliquos_. _Moveri_: this probably refers to the speech of Catulus; see
Introd. p. 51. Aug. _Cont. Ac._ III. 15 refers to this passage, which must
have been preserved in the second edition.
Sec.33. _Veri et falsi_: these words Lamb. considered spurious in the first
clause, and Halm brackets; but surely their repetition is pointed and
appropriate. "You talk about a rule for distinguishing between the true and
the false while you do away with the notion of true and false altogether."
The discussion here really turns on the use of terms. If it is fair to use
the term "true" to denote the _probably true_, the Academics are not open
to the criticism here attempted; cf. 111 _tam ver
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