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one good MS. but the rest have importata, a good em. is needed, as importune does not suit the
sense of the passage. Negat ... torsisset: for the tenses cf. 104 exposuisset, adiungit. Cum oculum
torsisset: i.e. by placing the finger beneath the eye and pressing upwards or sideways. Cf.
Aristot. Eth. Eud. VII. 13 (qu. by Dav.) ?f?a?µ??? d?ast?e?a?ta ??ste d?? t? ?e? fa???a?. Faber
qu. Arist. Problemata XVII. 31 d?a t? e?? t? p?a???? ?????s? t?? ?f?a?µ?? ?? (?) fa??eta? d??
t? ?e?. Also ib. XXXI. 3 inquiring the reason why drunkards see double he says ta?t? t??t? ????
eta? ?a? ea? t?? ?at??e? p?es? t?? ?f?a?µ??. Sextus refers to the same thing P.H. I. 47, A.M.
VII. 192 (?? pa?ap?esa? t?? ?f?a?µ??) so Cic. De Div. II. 120. Lucretius gives the same answer
as Timagoras, propter opinatus animi (IV. 465), as does Sext. A.M. VII. 210 on behalf of
Epicurus. Sed hic: Bait. sit hic. Maiorum: cf. 143. Quasi quaeratur: Carneades refused to discuss
about things in themselves but merely dealt with the appearances they present, t? ?a? a???e? ?
a? t? ?e?de? e? t??? p?a?µas? s??e???e? (Numen in Euseb. Pr. Eu. XIV. 8). Cf. also Sext. P.H.
I. 78, 87, 144, II. 75. Domi nascuntur: a proverb used like ??a??' es' ????a? and "coals to
Newcastle," see Lorenz on Plaut. Miles II. 2, 38, and cf. Ad Att. X. 14, 2, Ad Fam. IX. 3. Deus: cf.
19. Audiret ... ageret: MSS. have audies ... agerent. As the insertion of n in the imp. subj. is so
common in MSS. I read ageret and alter audies to suit it. Halm has audiret ... ageretur with
Dav., Bait. audiet, egerit. Ex hoc loco video ... cerno: MSS. have loco cerno regionem video
Pompeianum non cerno whence Lipsius conj. ex hoc loco e regione video. Halm ejects the words
regionem video, I prefer to eject cerno regionem. We are thus left with the slight change from
video to cerno, which is very often found in Cic., e.g. Orat. 18. Cic. sometimes however joins
the two verbs as in De Or. III. 161. O praeclarum prospectum: the view was a favourite one with
Cic., see Ad Att. I. 13, 5.
§81. Nescio qui: Goer. is quite wrong in saying that nescio quis implies contempt, while nescio
qui does not, cf. Div. in qu. Caec. 47, where nescio qui would contradict his rule. It is as difficult
to define the uses of the two expressions as to define those of aliquis and aliqui, on which see 61
n. In Paradoxa 12 the best MSS. have si qui and si quis almost in the same line with identically
the same meaning Dav. quotes Solinus and Plin. N.H. VII. 21, to show that the man mentioned
here was called Strabo—a misnomer surely. Octingenta: so the best MSS., not octoginta, which
however agrees better with Pliny. Quod abesset: "whatever might be 1800 stadia distant," aberat
would have implied that Cic. had some particular thing in mind, cf. Madv. Gram. 364, obs. 1.
Acrius: ???te???, Lamb. without need read acutius as Goer. did in 69. Illos pisces: so some
MSS., but the best have ullos, whence Klotz conj. multos, Orelli multos illos, omitting pisces.
For the allusion to the fish, cf. Acad. Post. fragm. 13. Videntur: n. on 25. Amplius: cf. 19 non
video cur quaerat amplius. Desideramus: Halm, failing to understand the passage, follows Christ
in reading desiderant (i.e. pisces). To paraphrase the sense is this "But say my opponents, the
Stoics and Antiocheans, we desire no better senses than we have." Well you are like the mole,
which does not yearn for the light because it does not know what light is. Of course all the
ancients thought the mole blind. A glance will show the insipidity of the sense given by Halm's
reading. Quererer cum deo: would enter into an altercation with the god. The phrase, like ???d??
es?a? t??? as opposed to ???d??e?? t??a implies mutual recrimination, cf. Pro Deiotaro 9
querellae cum Deiotaro. The reading tam quererer for the tamen quaereretur of the MSS. is due
to Manut. Navem: Sextus often uses the same illustration, as in P.H. I. 107, A.M. VII. 414. Non tu
verum testem, etc.: cf. 105. For the om. of te before habere, which has strangely troubled edd.
and induced them to alter the text, see n. on I. 6.
§82. Quid ego: Bait. has sed quid after Ernesti. Nave: so the best MSS., not navi, cf. Madv.
Gram. 42. Duodeviginti: so in 128. Goer. and Roeper qu. by Halm wished to read duodetriginta.
The reff. of Goer. at least do not prove his point that the ancients commonly estimated the sun at
28 times the size of the earth. Quasi pedalis: cf. D.F. I. 20 pedalis fortasse. For quasi = circiter
cf. note on 74. Madv. on D.F. I. 20 quotes Diog. Laert. X. 91, who preserves the very words of
Epicurus, in which however no mention of a foot occurs, also Lucr. V. 590, who copies Epicurus,
and Seneca Quaest. Nat. I. 3, 10 (solem sapientes viri pedalem esse contenderunt). Madv. points
out from Plut. De Plac. Phil. II. 21, p. 890 E, that Heraclitus asserted the sun to be a foot wide, he
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