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Clitomachus did allow such visa to stand as were sufficient to serve as a basis for action.
Hermann's neu cui labours under the same defect. Various emendations are nam cum (Lamb.,
accepted by Zeller 522), hic ut (Manut.), et cum (Dav. followed by Bait.), sed cum (Halm). The
most probable of these seems to me that of Manut. I should prefer sic ut, taking ut in the sense of
"although." Respondere: "to put in as an answer," as in 93 and often. Approbari: sc. putavit. Such
changes of construction are common in Cic., and I cannot follow Halm in altering the reading to
approbavit.
§105. Lucem eripimus: cf. 30.
§§105—111. Summary. You must see, Lucullus, by this time, that your defence of
dogmatism is overthrown (105). You asked how memory was possible on my
principles. Why, did not Siron remember the dogmas of Epicurus? If nothing can be
remembered which is not absolutely true, then these will be true (106). Probability is
quite sufficient basis for the arts. One strong point of yours is that nature compels us
to assent. But Panaetius doubted even some of the Stoic dogmas, and you yourself
refuse assent to the sorites, why then should not the Academic doubt about other
things? (107) Your other strong point is that without assent action is impossible
(108). But surely many actions of the dogmatist proceed upon mere probability. Nor
do you gain by the use of the hackneyed argument of Antiochus (109). Where
probability is, there the Academic has all the knowledge he wants (110). The
argument of Antiochus that the Academics first admit that there are true and false
visa and then contradict themselves by denying that there is any difference between
true and false, is absurd. We do not deny that the difference exists; we do deny that
human faculties are capable of perceiving the difference (111).
105. Inducto ... prob.: so Aug. Cont Ac. II. 12 Soluto, libero: cf. n. on 8. Implicato: = impedito cf.
101. Iacere: cf. 79. Isdem oculis: an answer to the question nihil cernis? in 102. Purpureum: cf.
fragm. 7 of the Acad. Post. Modo caeruleum ... sole: Nonius (cf. fragm. 23) quotes tum
caeruleum tum lavum (the MSS. in our passage have flavum) videtur, quodque nunc a sole. C.F.
Hermann would place mane ravum after quodque and take quod as a proper relative pronoun, not
as = "because." This transposition certainly gives increased clearness. Hermann further wishes to
remove a, quoting exx. of collucere without the prep., which are not at all parallel, i.e. Verr. I. 58,
IV. 71. Vibrat: with the a?????µ?? ?e?asµa of Aeschylus. Dissimileque: Halm, followed by
Bait., om. que. Proximo et: MSS. have ei, rightly altered by Lamb., cf. e.g. De Fato 44. Non
possis ... defendere: a similar line is taken in 81.
§106. Memoria: cf. 22. Polyaenus: named D.F. I. 20, Diog. X. 18, as one of the chief friends of
Epicurus. Falsum quod est: Greek and Latin do not distinguish accurately between the true and
the existent, the false and the non existent, hence the present difficulty; in Plato the confusion is
frequent, notably in the Sophistes and Theaetetus. Si igitur: "if then recollection is recollection
only of things perceived and known." The dogmatist theory of µ??µ? and ???s?? is dealt with in
exactly the same way by Sext. P.H. II. 5, 10 and elsewhere, cf. also Plat Theaet. 191 sq. Siron:
thus Madv. on D.F. II. 119 writes the name, not Sciron, as Halm. Fateare: the em. of Dav. for
facile, facere, facias of MSS. Christ defends facere, thinking that the constr. is varied from the
subj. to the inf. after oportet, as after necesse est in 39. For facere followed by an inf. cf. M.D.F.
IV. 8. Nulla: for non, cf. 47, 103.
§107. Fiet artibus: n. on 27 for the constr., for the matter see 22. Lumina: "strong points." Bentl.
boldly read columina, while Dav. proposed vimina or vincula. That an em. is not needed may be
seen from D.F. II. 70. negat Epicurus (hoc enim vestrum lumen est) N.D. I. 79, and 43 of this
book. Responsa: added by Ernesti. Faber supplies haruspicia, Orelli after Ern. haruspicinam, but,
as Halm says, some noun in the plur. is needed. Quod is non potest: this is the MSS. reading, but
most edd. read si is, to cure a wrong punctuation, by which a colon is placed at perspicuum est
above, and a full stop at sustineat. Halm restored the passage. Habuerint: the subj. seems due to
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