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. _Ratum_: cf. 141.

Sec.28. _Perceptum_: thoroughly known and grasped. Similar arguments are very
frequent in Sextus, e.g. _Adv. Math._ VIII. 281, where the dogmatist argues
that if proof be impossible, as the sceptic says, there must be a proof to
show it impossible; the sceptic doctrine must be _provable_. Cf. 109 of
this book. _Postulanti_: making it a necessity for the discussion; cf. _De
Leg._ I. 21. _Consentaneum esse_: [Greek: akolouthon einai]. _Ut alia_:
_although_ others. _Tantum abest ut--ut_: cf. Madv. _Gram._ 440 a.

Sec.29. _Pressius_: cf. _De Fato_ 31, 33, _N.D._ II. 20, _T.D._ IV. 14,
_Hortensius_ fragm. 46 ed. Nobbe. The word is mocked in 109. _Decretum_: of
course the Academics would say they did not hold this [Greek: dogma] as
_stabile fixum ratum_ but only as _probabile_. Sextus however _Pyrrh. Hyp._
I. 226 (and elsewhere) accuses them of making it in reality what in words
they professed it not to be, a fixed dogma. _Sentitis enim_: cf. _sentis_
in _D.F._ III. 26. _Fluctuare_: "to be at sea," Halm _fluctuari_, but the
deponent verb is not elsewhere found in Cic. _Summa_: cf. _summa
philosophiae_ _D.F._ II. 86. _Veri falsi_: cf. n. on 92. _Quae visa_: so
Halm for MSS. _quaevis_, which edd. had changed to _quae a quovis_.
_Repudiari_: the selection depended on the _probabile_ of course, with the
Academics. _Veri falsique_: these words were used in different senses by
the dogmatist and the sceptic, the former meant by them "the undestructibly
true and false." This being so, the statements in the text are in no sense
arguments, they are mere assertions, as Sext. says, [Greek: psile phasei
ison pheretai psile phasis] (_A.M._ VII. 315), [Greek: phasei men phasis
epischethesetai] (_ib._ 337). _Cognoscendi initium_: cf. 26, "This I have,"
the Academic would reply, "in my _probabile_." _Extremum expetendi_: a
rather unusual phrase for the ethical _finis_. _Ut moveri non possint_: so
[Greek: kineisthai] is perpetually used in Sext. _Est ut opinor_: so H