minima_ or
something of the kind. _Occultissimarum_: n. on I. 15. _Occurit ...
completur_: MSS. have _occuret_ mostly, if that is retained _complebitur_
must be read. Madv. _Opusc._ II. 282 takes _occurit_, explaining it as a
perfect, and giving numerous exx. of this sequence of tenses, cf. also
Wesenb. on _T.D._ IV. 35.

Sec.128. _Agi secum_: cf. _nobiscum ageret_ in 80. _Simile veri_: cf. 66.
_Notionem_: = _cognitionem_, [Greek: epistemen]. _At paulum_: MSS. _et_
Halm _sed._; cf. _at illud ante_ in 116. _Si quae_: Halm and many edd. have
_se, quae_. But the _se_ comes in very awkwardly, and is not needed before
the infinitive. Madv. indeed (_Em._ 114), after producing many exx. of the
reflexive pronoun omitted, says that he doubts about this passage because
_considero_ does not belong to the class of verbs with which this usage is
found, but he produces many instances with _puto_, which surely stands on
the same level. _Non magis_: so in 119 _nec magis approbabit nunc lucere_,
etc. The sunlight was the stock example of a most completely cognisable
phenomenon; hence the Academics showed their hostility to absolute
knowledge by refusing [Greek: ton helion homologein einai katalepton]
(Galen _De Opt. Gen. Dicendi_ 497 B qu. P. Valentia 304 ed. Or.). _Cornix_:
for the Stoic belief in divination see Zeller 349--358. _Signum illud_: the
_xystus_ (9) was adorned with statues; edd. qu. Plin. _Nat. Hist._ XXXIV.
8. _Duodeviginti_: 82, I just note that _octodecim_ is not used by Cic.
_Sol quantus sit_: 91. _Omnium rerum ... comprehendendi_: not a case of a
plural noun with a singular gerund like _spe rerum potiendi_, etc., but of
two genitives depending in different ways on the same word (_definitio_).
M. _Em._ 197 qu. Plat. _Leg._ 648 E [Greek: ten panton hettan phoboumenos
anthropon toi pomatos], _Brut._ 163 _Scaevolae dicendi elegantia_, _De Or._
III. 156. Other exx. in _M.D.F._ I. 14. For the turn of expression cf.
_T.D._ IV. 62 _omnium philosophorum una est ratio medendi_, _Lael._ 78
_omnium horum vitiorum una cautio est_, also 51 of this book.

Sec.Sec.129--141. Summary. What contention is there among philosophers about
the ethical standard! I pass by many abandoned systems like that of
Herillus but consider the discrepancies between Xenophanes, Parmenides,
Zeno of Elea, Euclides, Menedemus, Aristo, Pyrrho, Aristippus,
Epicurus, Callipho, Hieronymus, Diodorus, Polemo, Antiochus, Carneades
(129-131