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17. I conjecture malleo (a hammer) for the corrupt malcho, and think that in the second ed. some<br />
comparison from building operations to illustrate the fixity <strong>of</strong> knowledge gained through the ?<br />
ata???e?? was added to a passage which would correspond in substance with 27 <strong>of</strong> the Lucullus.<br />
I note in Vitruvius, quoted by Forc. s.v. malleolus, a similar expression (naves malleolis<br />
confixae) and in Pliny Nat. Hist. XXXIV. 14 navis fixa malleo. Adfixa therefore in this passage<br />
must have agreed with some lost noun either in the neut. plur. or fem. sing.<br />
18. This and fragm. 19 evidently hang very closely together. As Krische notes, the Stoic e?a??e?<br />
a had evidently been translated earlier in the book by perspicuitas as in Luc. 17.<br />
19. See on Luc. 57.<br />
BOOK IV.<br />
Further information on all these passages will be found in my notes on the parallel passages <strong>of</strong><br />
the Lucullus.<br />
21. Viam evidently a mistake for the umbram <strong>of</strong> Luc. 70.<br />
23. The best MS. <strong>of</strong> Nonius points to flavum for ravum (Luc. 105). Most likely an alteration was<br />
made in the second edition, as Krische supposes, p. 64.<br />
28. Corpusculis: Luc. 121 has corporibus. Krische's opinion that this latter word was in the<br />
second edition changed into the former may be supported from I. 6, which he does not notice.<br />
The conj. is confirmed by Aug. Contr. Ac. III. 23.<br />
29. Magnis obscurata: in Luc. 122 it is crassis occultata, so that we have another alteration, see<br />
Krische, p. 64.<br />
30. Only slight differences appear in the MSS. <strong>of</strong> the Luc. 123, viz. contraria, for in c., ad<br />
vestigia for contra v.<br />
31. Luc. 137 has dixi for dictus. As Cic. does not <strong>of</strong>ten leave out est with the passive verb,<br />
Nonius has probably quoted wrongly. It will be noted that the fragments <strong>of</strong> Book III. correspond<br />
to the first half <strong>of</strong> the Luc., those <strong>of</strong> Book IV. to the second half. Cic. therefore divided the Luc.<br />
into two portions at or about 63.<br />
UNCERTAIN BOOKS.<br />
32. I have already said that this most likely belonged to the preliminary assault on the senses<br />
made by Cic. in the second book.<br />
33. In the Introd. p. 55 I have given my opinion that the substance <strong>of</strong> Catulus' speech which<br />
unfolded the doctrine <strong>of</strong> the probabile was incorporated with Cicero's speech in the second book<br />
<strong>of</strong> this edition. To that part this fragment must probably be referred.<br />
34. This important fragment clearly belongs to Book II., and is a jocular application <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Carneadean probabile, as may be seen from the words probabiliter posse confici.<br />
35. Krische assigns this to the end <strong>of</strong> Varro's speech in the third Book. With this opinion I find it<br />
quite impossible to agree. A passage in the Lucullus (60) proves to demonstration that in the first<br />
edition this allusion to the esoteric teaching <strong>of</strong> the Academy could only have occurred either in<br />
the speech <strong>of</strong> Catulus or in that <strong>of</strong> Cicero. As no reason whatever appears to account for its<br />
transference to Varro I prefer to regard it as belonging to Cic.'s exposition <strong>of</strong> the positive side <strong>of</strong><br />
Academic doctrine in the second book. Cic. repeatedly insists that the Academic school must not<br />
be supposed to have no truths to maintain, see Luc. 119, also 66 and N.D. I. 12. Also Aug.<br />
Contra. Ac. II. 29.<br />
36. It is difficult to see where this passage could have been included if not in that prooemium to<br />
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