). If I desire to follow the Stoics, Antiochus will not allow
me, while if I follow Polemo, the Stoics are irate (132). I must be
careful not to assent to the unknown, which is a dogma common to both
you, Lucullus, and myself (133). Zeno thinks virtue gives happiness.
"Yes," says Antiochus, "but not the greatest possible." How am I to
choose among such conflicting theories? (134) Nor can I accept those
points in which Antiochus and Zeno agree. For instance, they regard
emotion as harmful, which the ancients thought natural and useful
(135). How absurd are the Stoic Paradoxes! (136) Albinus joking said to
Carneades "You do not think me a praetor because I am not a _sapiens_."
"That," said Carneades, "is Diogenes' view, not mine" (137). Chrysippus
thinks only three ethical systems can with plausibility be defended
(138). I gravitate then towards one of them, that of pleasure. Virtue
calls me back, nor will she even allow me to join pleasure to herself
(139). When I hear the several pleadings of pleasure and virtue, I
cannot avoid being moved by both, and so I find it impossible to choose
(141, 142).

Sec.129. _Quod coeperam_: in 128 at _veniamus nunc ad boni maique notionem_.
_Constituendi_: n. on 114. _Bonorum summa_: cf. _D.F._ V. 21 and Madv. _Est
igitur_: so in _De Div._ II. 8, _igitur_ comes fourth word in the clause;
this is not uncommon in Cic., as in Lucretius. _Omitto_: MSS. _et omitto_,
but cf. Madv. _Em._ 201 _certe contra Ciceronis usum est 'et omitto' pro
simplici 'omitto,' in initio huius modi orationis ubi universae sententiae
exempla subiciuntur per figuram omissionis_. _Relicta_: cf. 130 _abiectos_.
Cic. generally classes Herillus (or Erillus as Madv. on _D.F._ II. 35
spells the name), Pyrrho and Aristo together as authors of exploded
systems, cf. _D.F._ II. 43, _De Off._ I. 6, _T.D._ V. 85. _Ut Herillum_.
MSS. have either _Erillum_ or _et illum_, one would expect _ut Herilli_.
_Cognitione et scientia_: double translation of [Greek: episteme]. For the
_finis_ of Herillus see Madv. on _D.F._ II. 43. _Megaricorum_:
_Xenophanes_. Cic considers the Eleatic and Megarian schools to be so
closely related as to have, like the schools of Democritus and Epicurus, a
continuous history. The Megarian system was indeed an ethical development
of Eleatic doctrine. Zeller, _Socrates_ 211. _Unum et simile_: for this see
Zell. _Socr._ 222 sq, with footnotes, R. a