has induced
some edd. to transpose. For _liniamentum_ = _lineam_ cf. _De Or._ I. 187.
_Si adigam_: the fine em. of Manut. for _si adiiciamus_ of MSS. The
construction _adigere aliquem ius iurandum_ will be found in Caes. _Bell.
Civ._ I. 76, II. 18, qu. by Dav., cf. also Virg. _Aen._ III. 56 _quid non
mortalia pectora cogis auri sacra fames?_ _Sapientem nec prius_: this is
the "_egregia lectio_" of three of Halm's MSS. Before Halm _sapientemne_
was read, thus was destroyed the whole point of the sentence, which is
_not_ that the _sapiens_ will swear to the size of the sun after he has
seen Archimedes go through his calculations, _but_ that the _sapiens_,
however true he admits the bases of proof to be which Archimedes uses, will
_not_ swear to the truth of the elaborate conclusions which that geometer
rears upon them. Cicero is arguing as in 128 against the absurdity of
attaching one and the same degree of certainty to the simplest and the most
complex truths, and tries to condemn the Stoic _sapiens_ out of his own
mouth, cf. esp. _nec ille iurare posset_ in 123. _Multis partibus_: for
this expression see Munro on Lucr. I. 734, for the sense cf. 82, 123, 126,
128. _Deum_: see 126.

Sec.117. _Vim_: = [Greek: ananken], cf. _cogere_ in 116. _Ne ille_: this
asseverative _ne_ is thus always closely joined with pronouns in Cic.
_Sententiam eliget et_: MSS. have (by _dittographia_ of _m_, _eli_) added
_melius_ after _sententiam_, and have also dropped _et_. Dav. wished to
read _elegerit_, comparing the beginning of 119. _Insipiens eliget_: cf.
115 _quale est a non sapiente explicari sapientiam?_ and 9 _statuere qui
sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis_. _Infinitae quaestiones_:
[Greek: theseis], general propositions, opposed to _finitae quaestiones_,
limited propositions, Gk. [Greek: hypotheseis]. Quintal III. 5, 5 gives as
an ex. of the former _An uxor ducenda_, of the latter _An Catoni ducenda_.
These _quaestiones_ are very often alluded to by Cic. as in _D.F._ I. 12,
IV. 6, _De Or._ I. 138, II. 65--67, _Topica_ 79, _Orat._ 46, cf. also
Quint. X. 5, II. _E quibus omnia constant_: this sounds like Lucretius,
_omnia_ = [Greek: to pan].

Sec.118. For these _physici_ the student must in general be referred to R. and
P., Schwegler, and Grote's _Plato_ Vol. I. A more complete enumeration of
schools will be found in Sext. _P.H._ III. 30 sq. Our passage is imitated
by Aug _De Civ. Dei_ XVIII. 37. _Concessisse primas_: Cic. a