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Epicurean, the happiness of the sapiens must be proof against the rack; cf. esp. D.F. III. 29, 75,
T.D. V. 73, Zeller 450, and the similar description of the s?f?? in Plato's Gorgias. Potius quam
aut: Lamb. ut; but I think C.F. Hermann is right in asserting after Wopkens that Cic. never
inserts ut after potius quam with the subj. Tischer on T.D. II. 52 affirms that ut is frequently
found, but gives no exx. For the meaning cf. De Off. I. 86, Aug. Cont. Ac. II. 12 who says the
sapiens of the Academy must be desertor officiorum omnium. Comprehensi ... constituti: cf. the
famous abiit, evasit, excessit, crupit. Iis rebus: note the assumption that the sensation
corresponds to the thing which causes it. Adsensus sit ... possint: nearly all edd. before Halm read
possunt, but the subj. expresses the possibility as present to the mind of the supposed vir bonus.
Cf. Madv. Gram. 368.
§24. Primum: out of place, see on 21. Agere: the dogmatist always held that the sceptic must, if
consistent, be a?e?e???t?? e? ß??? (Sext. Pyrrh. Hyp. I. 23). Extremum: similar attempts to
translate te??? are made in D.F. I. 11, 29, V. 17. Cum quid agere: cf. I. 23 for the phrase Naturae
accommodatum. a purely Stoic expression, ??µ???µe??? t? f?se?; cf. 38 and D.F. V. 17, also III.
16, Zeller 227, footnote, R. and P. 390. Impellimur: ?????µe?a, Sext. Adv. Math. VII. 391, as
often.
§25. Oportet videri: "ought to be seen." For this use cf. 39, 81 and 122 of this book. Videri at the
end of this section has the weak sense, "to seem." Lucretius often passes rapidly from the one use
to the other; cf. I. 262 with I. 270, and Munro's n., also M.D.F. II. 52, Em. Liv. p. 42. Non poterit:
as the Academics allege. Naturae ... alienum: Cic. uses this adjective with the dat, and also with
the ablative preceded by ab; I doubt whether the phrase maiestate alienum (without the
preposition) can be right in De Div. II. 102, where the best texts still keep it. Non occurrit ...
aget: occurrit is probably the perfect. Cf. n. on 127.
§26. Quid quod si: Goer., outrageously reads quid quod si, si. Tollitur: the verb tollere occurs as
frequently in this sense as a?a??e?? does in Sextus. Lux lumenque: Bentl. dux The expression
dux vitae is of course frequent (cf. N.D. I. 40, T.D. V. 5 and Lucretius), but there is no need to
alter. Lux is properly natural light, lumen artificial, cf. Ad Att. XVI. 13, 1. lumina dimiseramus,
nec satis lucebat, D.F. III. 45 solis luce ... lumen lucernae. There is the same difference between
f?? and fe????, the latter is used for the former (fe???? ??????) just as lumen is for lux (si te
secundo lumine his offendere—Ad Att. VII. 26, 1) but not often vice versa. Trans. "the luminary
and the lamp of life," and cf. Sext. Adv. Math. VII. 269 where the fa?tas?a is called fe????. Finis:
so in the beginning of the Nicom. Eth. Aristot. assumes that the actual existence of human
exertion is a sufficient proof that there is a te???. Aperta: a reminiscence of the frequently
recurring Greek terms e??a??pte??, e??a??pt???? etc., cf. Sextus passim, and D.F. I. 30. Initium
... exitus = a??? ... te???. Tenetur: MSS. tenet, the nom. to which Guietus thought to be ratio
above. ?p?de????: cf. the definition very often given by Sext. e.g. Pyrrh. Hyp. II. 143 ????? d?'
??µ??????µe??? ??µµat?? (premisses) ?ata s??a????? ep?f??a? (conclusion) e??a??pt?? ad??
??, also Diog. VII. 45, ????? d?a t?? µa???? ?ata?aµßa??µe??? t? ??tt?? ?ata?aµßa??µe???
pe?a????ta (if the reading be right).
§27. Notio: another trans. of e????a. Conclusisse: although the Greeks used s?µpe?asµa instead
of ep?f??a sometimes for the conclusion of the syllogism, they did not use the verb s?µpe?a??
e?? which has been supposed to correspond to concludere. It is more likely to be a trans. of s??
a?e??, and conclusum argumentum of s??a?t???? ?????, which terms are of frequent
occurrence. Rationibus progredi: to a similar question Sextus answers, ??? est?? a?a??a??? ta?
e?e???? (the dogmatists) d??µat?????a? p??ßa??e??, p?asµat?de?? ??pa????sa? (Adv. Math.
VIII. 367). Sapientiae ... futurum est: for the dat. with facio and fio see Madv. Gram. 241, obs. 5,
Opusc. I. 370, D.F. II. 79, and cf. 96 of this book. Lex veri rectique: cf. 29; the constitutio veri
and the determination of what is rectum in morals are the two main tasks of philosophy.
Sapientique satis non sit: so Manut. for the sapientisque sit of the MSS. Halm after Dav. reads
sapientis, neque satis sit, which I think is wrong, for if the ellipse be supplied the construction
will run neque dubitari potest quin satis sit, which gives the exact opposite of the sense required.
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