iis_:
[Greek: prolepsesi], Zeller 403 sq. _Constituit_: note the constr. with
_in_, like _ponere in_. _Cogitationis_: cf. I. 30. Several MSS. have
_cognitionis_, the two words are frequently confused. See Wesenberg _Fm._
to _T.D._ III. p. 17, who says, _multo tamen saepius "cogitatio" pro
"cognitio" substituitur quam contra_, also _M.D.F_ III. 21.

Sec.143. _Ne maiorum quidem suorum_: sc. _aliquid probat_. For _maiorum_ cf.
80. Here Plato is almost excluded from the so-called _vetus Academia_, cf.
I. 33. _Libri_: titles of some are preserved in Diog. Laert. IV. 11--14.
_Nihil politius_: cf. 119, n. _Pedem nusquam_: for the ellipse cf. 58, 116,
_Pro Deiot._ 42 and _pedem latum_ in Plaut. _Abutimur_: this verb in the
rhetorical writers means to use words in metaphorical or unnatural senses,
see Quint. X. 1, 12. This is probably the meaning here; "do we use the name
Academic in a non natural fashion?" _Si dies est lucet_: a better trans of
[Greek: ei phos estin, hemera estin] than was given in 96, where see n.
_Aliter Philoni_: not Philo of Larissa, but a noted dialectician, pupil of
Diodorus the Megarian, mentioned also in 75. The dispute between Diodorus
and Philo is mentioned in Sext. _A.M._ VIII. 115--117 with the same purpose
as here, see also Zeller 39. _Antipater_: the Stoic of Tarsus, who
succeeded Diogenes Babylonius in the headship of the school. _Archidemus_:
several times mentioned with Antipater in Diog., as VII. 68, 84.
_Opiniosissimi_: so the MSS. I cannot think that the word is wrong, though
all edd. condemn it. Halm is certainly mistaken in saying that a laudatory
epithet such as _ingeniosissimi_ is necessary. I believe that the word
_opiniosissimi_ (an adj. not elsewhere used by Cic.) was manufactured on
the spur of the moment, in order to ridicule these two philosophers, who
are playfully described as men full of _opinio_ or [Greek: doxa]--just the
imputation which, as Stoics, they would most repel. Hermann's
_spinosissimi_ is ingenious, and if an em. were needed, would not be so
utterly improbable as Halm thinks.

Sec.144. _In contionem vocas_: a retort, having reference to 14, cf. also 63,
72. For these _contiones_ see Lange, _Romische Alterthumer_ II. 663, ed 2.
They were called by and held under the presidency of magistrates, all of
whom had the right to summon them, the right of the tribune being under
fewer restrictions than the right of the others. _Occludi tabernas_ in
order of course that the ar