_Ad
Att._ II. 1, and discusses the difficulty of applying this criticism to the
works of Aristotle which we possess. _Nulla vis_: cf. I. 28. _Exsistere_:
Walker conj. _efficere_, "_recte ut videtur_" says Halm. Bait. adopts it.
_Ornatus_: = [Greek: kosmos].

Sec.120. _Libertas ... non esse_: a remarkable construction. For the Academic
liberty see Introd. p. 18. _Quod tibi est_: after these words Halm puts
merely a comma, and inserting _respondere_ makes _cur deus_, etc. part of
the same sentence. Bait. follows. _Nostra causa_: Cic. always writes _mea,
tua, vestra, nostra causa_, not _mei, tui, nostri, vestri_, just as he
writes _sua sponte_, but not _sponte alicuius_. For the Stoic opinion that
men are the chief care of Providence, see _N.D._ I. 23, II. 37, _D.F._ III.
67, _Ac._ I. 29 etc., also Zeller. The difficulties surrounding the opinion
are treated of in Zeller 175, _N.D._ II. 91--127. They supply in Sext.
_P.H._ I. 32, III. 9--12 an example of the refutation of [Greek: nooumena]
by means of [Greek: nooumena]. _Tam multa ac_: MSS. om. _ac_, which I
insert. Lactantius qu. the passage without _perniciosa_. _Myrmecides_: an
actual Athenian artist, famed for minute work in ivory, and especially for
a chariot which a fly covered with its wings, and a ship which the wings of
a bee concealed. See Plin. _Nat. Hist._ VII. 21, XXXVI. 5.

Sec.121. _Posse_: n. on I. 29. _Strato_: R. and P. 331. _Sed cum_: _sed_ often
marks a very slight contrast, there is no need to read _et_, as Halm.
_Asperis ... corporibus_: cf. fragm. 28 of the _Ac. Post._, also _N.D._ I.
66. _Somnia_: so _N.D._ I. 18 _miracula non disserentium philosophorum sed
somniantium_, _ib._ I. 42 _non philosophorum iudicia sed delirantium
somnia_, also _ib._ I. 66 _flagitia Democriti_. _Docentis_: giving _proof_.
_Optantis_: Guietus humorously conj. _potantis,_ Durand _oscitantis_ (cf.
_N.D._ I. 72), others _opinantis_. That the text is sound however may be
seen from _T.D._ II. 30 _optare hoc quidem est non docere_, _De Fato_ 46,
_N.D._ I. 19 _optata magis quam inventa_, _ib._ III. 12 _doceas oportet nec
proferas_; cf. also _Orat._ 59 _vocis bonitas optanda est, non est enim in
nobis_, i.e. a good voice is a thing to be prayed for, and not to be got by
exertion. There is a similar Greek proverb, [Greek: euche mallon e
aletheia], in Sext. _P.H._ VIII. 353. _Magno opere_: Hermann wishes to read
_onere_. The phrase _magnum onus_ is indeed common (cf. _De Or._ I. 116)