nus_ is applied to the same course of action in
_D.F._ III. 31. _Cogitatione_: "idea". _Temeritate_: cf. I. 42, _De Div._
I. 7, and the charge of [Greek: propeteia] constantly brought against the
dogmatists by Sext. _Praepostere_: in a disorderly fashion, taking the
wrong thing first.

Sec.67. _Aliquando ... opinabitur_: this of course is only true if you grant
the Academic doctrine, _nihil posse percipi_. _Secundum illud ... etiam
opinari_: it seems at first sight as though _adsentiri_ and _opinari_ ought
to change places in this passage, as Manut. proposes. The difficulty lies
in the words _secundum illud_, which, it has been supposed, must refer back
to the second premiss of Arcesilas' argument. But if the passage be
translated thus, "Carneades sometimes granted _as a second premiss_ the
following statement, that the wise man sometimes does opine" the difficulty
vanishes. The argument of Carneades would then run thus, (1) _Si ulli rei_,
etc. as above, (2) _adsentietur autem aliquando_, (3) _opinabitur igitur_.

Sec.68. _Adsentiri quicquam_: only with neuter pronouns like this could
_adsentiri_ be followed by an accusative case. _Sustinenda est_: [Greek:
ephekteon]. _Iis quae possunt_: these words MSS. om. _Tam in praecipiti_:
for the position of _in_ cf. n. on I. 25. The best MSS. have here _tamen
in_. Madv. altered _tamen_ to _tam_ in n. on _D.F._ V. 26. The two words
are often confused, as in _T.D._ IV. 7, cf. also n. on I. 16. _Sin autem_,
etc.: cf. the passage of Lactantius _De Falsa Sapientia_ III. 3, qu. by P.
Valentia (p. 278 of Orelli's reprint) _si neque sciri quicquam potest, ut
Socrates docuit, neque opinari, oportet, ut Zeno, tota philosophia sublata
est_. _Nitamur ... percipi_: "let us struggle to prove the proposition,
etc." The construction is, I believe, unexampled so that I suspect _hoc_,
or some such word, to have fallen out between _igitur_ and _nihil_.

Sec.69. _Non acrius_: one of the early editions omits _non_ while Goer. reads
_acutius_ and puts a note of interrogation at _defensitaverat_. M. _Em._
161 points out the absurdity of making Cic. say that the old arguments of
Antiochus in favour of Academicism were weaker than his new arguments
against it. _Quis enim_: so Lamb. for MSS. _quisquam enim_. _Excogitavit_:
on interrogations not introduced by a particle of any kind see Madv.
_Gram._ 450. _Eadem dicit_: on the subject in hand, of course. Taken
without this limitation the proposition is not