lways considers
Thales to be _sapientissimus e septem_ (_De Leg._ II. 26). Hence Markland
on Cic. _Ad Brutum_ II. 15, 3 argued that that letter cannot be genuine,
since in it the supremacy among the seven is assigned to Solon.
_Infinitatem naturae_: [Greek: to apeiron], _naturae_ here = [Greek:
ousias]. _Definita_: this is opposed to _infinita_ in _Topica_ 79, so
_definire_ is used for _finire_ in _Orat._ 65, where Jahn qu. _Verr._ IV.
115. _Similis inter se_: an attempt to translate [Greek: homoiomereias].
_Eas primum_, etc.: cf. the exordium of Anaxagoras given from Diog. II. 6
in R. and P. 29 [Greek: panta chremata en homou eita nous elthon auta
diekosmese]. _Xenophanes ... deum_: Eleaticism was in the hands of Xenoph.
mainly theological. _Neque natum unquam_: cf. _neque ortum unquam_ in 119.
_Parmenides ignem_: cf. Arist. _Met. A._ 5 qu. R. and P. 94. He only
hypothetically allowed the existence of the phenomenal world, after which
he made two [Greek: archai, thermon kai psychron touton de to men kata men
to hon thermon tattei, thateron de kata to me on]. _Heraclitus_: n. on I.
39. _Melissus_: see Simplicius qu. R. and P. 101, and esp. [Greek: to eon
aiei ara en te kai estai]. _Plato_: n. on I. 27. _Discedent_: a word often
used of those vanquished in a fight, cf. Hor. _Sat._ I. 7, 17.

Sec.119. _Sic animo ... sensibus_: knowledge according to the Stoics was
homogeneous throughout, no one thing could be more or less known than
another. _Nunc lucere_: cf. 98, also 128 _non enim magis adsentiuntur_,
etc. _Mundum sapientem_: for this Stoic doctrine see _N.D._ I. 84, II. 32,
etc. _Fabricata sit_: see 87 n. _Solem_: 126. _Animalis intellegentia_:
reason is the essence of the universe with the Stoics, cf. Zeller 138--9,
also 28, 29 of Book I. _Permanet_: the deity is to the Stoic [Greek: pneuma
endiekon di holou tou kosmou] (Plut. _De Plac. Phil._ I. 7 qu. R. and P.
375), _spiritus per omnia maxima ac minima aequali intentione diffusus._
(Seneca, _Consol. ad Helvid._ 8, 3 qu. Zeller 147). _Deflagret_: the Stoics
considered the [Greek: kosmos phthartos], cf. Diog. VII. 141, Zeller
156--7. _Fateri_: cf. _tam vera quam falsa cernimus_ in 111. _Flumen
aureum_: Plut. _Vita Cic._ 24 alludes to this ([Greek: hoti chrysiou
potamos eie reontos]). This is the constant judgment of Cic. about
Aristotle's style. Grote, _Aristot._ Vol I. p. 43, quotes _Topica_ 3, _De
Or._ I. 49, _Brut._ 121, _N.D._ II. 93, _De Inv._ II. 6, _D.F._ I. 14,