emocr., see II. 73. _Dixerunt_: Halm brackets this because of _dixerunt_
above, parts of the verb _dicere_ are however often thus repeated by Cic.

Sec.45. _Ne illud quidem_: cf. 16. _Latere censebat_ Goer. omitted _censebat_
though in most MSS. Orelli and Klotz followed as usual. For the sense II.
122. _Cohibereque_: Gk. [Greek: epechein], which we shall have to explain
in the _Lucullus_. _Temeritatem ... turpius_: for these expressions, see
II. 66, note. _Praecurrere_: as was the case with the dogmatists. _Paria
momenta_: this is undiluted scepticism, and excludes even the possibility
of the _probabile_ which Carneades put forward. For the doctrine cf. II.
124, for the expression Euseb. _Praep. Evan._ XIV. c. 4 (from Numenius) of
Arcesilas, [Greek: einai gar panta akatalepta kai tous eis ekatera logous
isokrateis allelois], Sextus _Adv. Math._ IX. 207 [Greek: isostheneis
logoi]; in the latter writer the word [Greek: isostheneia] very frequently
occurs in the same sense, e g _Pyrrhon. Hyp._ I. 8 (add _N.D._ I. 10,
_rationis momenta_)

Sec.46. _Platonem_: to his works both dogmatists and sceptics appealed, Sextus
_Pyrrhon. Hyp._ I. 221 [Greek: ton Platona oin hoi men dogmatikon ephasan
einai, hoi de apo etikon, hoi de kata men ti aporetikon, kata de ti
dogmatikon]. Stobaeus II. 6, 4 neatly slips out of the difficulty; [Greek:
Platon polyphonos on, ouch hos tines oiontai polydoxos]. _Exposuisti_:
Durand's necessary em., approved by Krische, Halm, etc. for MSS. _exposui_.
_Zenone_: see Introd. p. 5.

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NOTES ON THE FRAGMENTS.

BOOK I.

1. _Mnesarchus_: see II. 69, _De Or._ I. 45, and _Dict. Biogr._
'Antipater'; cf. II. 143, _De Off._ III. 50. Evidently this fragment
belongs to that historical justification of the New Academy with which I
suppose Cicero to have concluded the first book.

2. The word _concinere_ occurs _D.F._ IV. 60, _N.D._ I. 16, in both which
places it is used of the Stoics, who are said _re concinere, verbis
discrepare_ with the other schools. This opinion of Antiochus Cic. had
already mentioned 43, and probably repeated in this fragment. Krische
remarks that Augustine, _Cont. Acad._ II. 14, 15, seems to have imitated
that part of Cicero's exposition to which this fragment belongs. If so Cic.
must have condemned the unwarrantable verbal innovations of Zeno in order
to excuse the extreme scepticism of Arcesilas (Krische, p. 58).

BOOK II.

3. This fragm. c