,
but _magnum opus_, in the sense of "a great task," is equally so, cf.
_T.D._ III. 79, 84, _Orat._ 75. _Modo hoc modo illud_: 134.

Sec.122. _Latent ista_: see n. on fragm. 29 of the _Ac. Post._; for _latent_
cf. I. 45. Aug. _Cont. Ac._ II. 12, III. 1 imitates this passage.
_Circumfusa_: cf. I. 44, and 46 of this book. _Medici_: cf. _T.D._ I. 46
_Viderentur_: a genuine passive, cf. 25, 39, 81. _Empirici_: a school of
physicians so called. _Ut ... mutentur_: exactly the same answer was made
recently to Prof. Huxley's speculations on protoplasm; he was said to have
assumed that the living protoplasm would have the same properties as the
dead. _Media pendeat_: cf. _N.D._ II. 98, _De Or._ III. 178.

Sec.123. _Habitari ait_: for this edd. qu. Lactant. _Inst._ III. 23, 12.
_Portenta_: "monstrosities these," cf. _D.F._ IV. 70. _Iurare_: cf. 116.
_Neque ego_, etc.: see fragm. 30 of _Ac. Post._ [Greek: Antipodas]: this
doctrine appears in Philolaus (see Plut. _Plac. Phil._ III. 11 qu. R. and
P. 75), who give the name of [Greek: antichthon] to the opposite side of
the world. Diog. VIII. 26 (with which passage cf. Stob. _Phys._ XV. 7)
mentions the theory as Pythagorean, but in another passage (III. 24) says
that Plato first invented the name. The word [Greek: antipous] seems to
occur first in Plat. _Tim._ 63 A. The existence of [Greek: antipodes]; was
of course bound up with the doctrine that the universe or the world is a
globe (which is held by Plat. in the _Tim._ and by the Stoics, see Stob.
_Phys._ XV. 6, Diog. VII. 140), hence the early Christian writers attack
the two ideas together as unscriptural. Cf. esp Aug. _De Civ. Dei_ XVI. 9.
_Hicetas_: he was followed by Heraclides Ponticus and some Pythagoreans.
Sext. _A.M._ X. 174 speaks of the followers of Aristarchus the
mathematician as holding the same doctrine. It seems also to be found in
Philolaus, see R. and P. 75. _Theophrastus_: who wrote much on the history
of philosophy, see R. and P. 328. _Platonem_: the words of Plato (_Tim._ 40
B) are [Greek: gen de trophon men hemeteran, eillomenen de peri ton dia
pantos polon tetamenon]. _Quid tu, Epicure_: the connection is that Cic.,
having given the crotchets of other philosophers about [Greek: physike],
proceeds to give the peculiar crotchet of Epic. _Putas solem ... tantum_: a
hard passage. _Egone? ne bis_ is the em. of Lamb. for MSS. _egone vobis_,
and is approved by Madv., who thus explains it (_Em._ 185) "_cum
interrogatu