i numquam_ of MSS. The question _uter est
prudentior_ is intended to press home the dilemma in which Cicero has
placed the supposed _sapiens_. All the other emendations I have seen are
too unsatisfactory to be enumerated.
Sec.133. _Non posse ... esse_: this seems to me sound; Bait. however reads
_non esse illa probanda sap._ after Lamb., who also conj. _non posse illa
probata esse_. _Paria_: _D.F._ III. 48, _Paradoxa_ 20 sq., Zeller 250.
_Praecide_: [Greek: syntomos] or [Greek: synelon eipe], cf. _Cat. Mai._ 57,
_Ad Att._ VIII. 4, X. 16. _Inquit_: n. on 79. _Quid quod quae_: so Guietus
with the approval of Madv. (_Em._ 203) reads for MSS. _quid quae_ or _quid
quaeque_, Halm and Bait., follow Moser in writing _Quid? si quae_ removing
the stop at _paria_, and make _in utramque partem_ follow _dicantur_, on
Orelli's suggestion. When several relative pronouns come together the MSS.
often omit one. _Dicebas_: in 27. _Incognito_: 133.
Sec.134. _Etiam_: = "yes," Madv. _Gram._ 454. _Non beatissimam_: I. 22, n.
_Deus ille_: i.e. more than man (of Aristotle's [Greek: e theos e
therion]), if he can do without other advantages. For the omission of _est_
after the emphatic _ille_ cf. 59, n. _Theophrasto_, etc.: n. on I. 33, 35.
_Dicente_: before this Halm after Lamb., followed by Bait., inserts
_contra_, the need for which I fail to see. _Et hic_: i.e. Antiochus. _Ne
sibi constet_: Cic. argues in _T.D._ V. that there cannot be degrees in
happiness. _Tum hoc ... tum illud_: cf. 121. _Iacere_: 79. _In his
discrepant_: I. 42 _in his constitit_.
Sec.135. _Moveri_: [Greek: kineisthai], 29. _Laetitia efferri_: I. 38.
_Probabilia_: the removal of passion and delight is easier than that of
fear and pain. _Sapiensne ... deleta sit_: see Madv. _D.F._ p. 806, ed. 2,
who is severe upon the reading of Orelli (still kept by Klotz), _non
timeat? nec si patria deleatur? non doleat? nec, si deleta sit?_ which
involves the use of _nec_ for _ne ... quidem_. I have followed the reading
of Madv. in his _Em._, not the one he gives (after Davies) in _D.F._ _ne
patria deleatur_, which Halm takes, as does Baiter. Mine is rather nearer
the MSS. _Decreta_: some MSS. _durata_; Halm conj. _dictata_.
_Mediocritates_: [Greek: mesopetes], as in Aristotle; cf. _T.D._ III. 11,
22, 74. _Permotione_: [Greek: kinesei]. _Naturalem ... modum_: so _T.D._
III. 74. _Crantoris_: sc. _librum_, for the omission of which see n. on I.
13; add Quint. IX. 4, 18, where Spalding
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