holding assent; withholding it absolutely and
withholding it merely so far as to deny the _certainty_ of phenomena.
The latter mode leaves all that is required for ordinary life (104).

Sec.98. _Tortuosum_: similar expressions are in _T.D._ II. 42, III. 22, _D.F._
IV. 7. _Ut Poenus_: "as might be expected from a Carthaginian;" cf. _D.F._
IV. 56, _tuus ille Poenulus, homo acutus_. A different meaning is given by
the _ut_ in passages like _De Div._ II. 30 _Democritus non inscite nugatur,
ut physicus, quo genere nihil arrogantius_; "for a physical philosopher."

Sec.99. _Genera_: here = classifications of, modes of dividing _visa_. This
way of taking the passage will defend Cic. against the strong censure of
Madv. (Pref. to _D.F._ p. lxiii.) who holds him convicted of ignorance, for
representing Carneades as dividing _visa_ into those which can be perceived
and those which cannot. Is it possible that any one should read the
_Academica_ up to this point, and still believe that Cic. is capable of
supposing, even for a moment, that Carneades in any way upheld [Greek:
katalepsis]? _Dicantur_: i.e. _ab Academicis_. _Si probabile_: the _si_ is
not in MSS. Halm and also Bait. follow Christ in reading _est, probabile
nihil esse_. _Commemorabas_: in 53, 58. _Eversio_: cf. _D.F._ III. 50 (the
same words), Plat. _Gorg_. 481 C [Greek: hemon ho bios anatetrammenos an
eie], Sext. _A.M._ VIII. 157 [Greek: syncheomen ton bion]. _Et sensibus_:
no second _et_ corresponds to this; _sic_ below replaces it. See Madv.
_D.F._ p. 790, ed. 2. _Quicquam tale_ etc.: cf. 40, 41. _Nihil ab eo
differens_: n. on 54. _Non comprehensa_: n. on 96.

Sec.100. _Si iam_: "if, for example;" so _iam_ is often used in Lucretius.
_Probo ... bono_: it would have seemed more natural to transpose these
epithets. _Facilior ... ut probet_: the usual construction is with _ad_ and
the gerund; cf. _De Div._ II. 107, _Brut_. 180. _Anaxagoras_: he made no
[Greek: homoiomereiai] of snow, but only of water, which, when pure and
deep, is dark in colour. _Concreta_: so Manut. for MSS. _congregata_. In
121 the MSS. give _concreta_ without variation, as in _N.D._ II. 101, _De
Div._ I. 130, _T.D._ I. 66, 71.

Sec.101. _Impeditum_: cf. 33, n. _Movebitur_: cf. _moveri_ in 24. _Non enim
est_: Cic. in the vast majority of cases writes _est enim_, the two words
falling under one accent like _sed enim, et enim_ (cf. Corss. _Ausspr._ II.
851); Beier on _De Off._ I. p. 157 (qu. b