C. goes more into detail Fin. 1 22 (Epicurus) tollit definitiones, nihil de

dividendo ae partiendo docet, non quo modo efficiatur concludaturque ratio tradit, non qua via captiosa solvantur, ambigua distinguantur ostendit. According to Seneca Ep. 89 the Epicureans at first made philosophy con- sist of Ethics and Physics only, but afterwards cum zpsis rebus cogerentur ambigua secernere, falsa sub specie veri latentia coarguere, ipsi quoque locum, quem de judicio et regula appellant (N. D.1 § 48) alio nomine rationalem induxerunt; sed eam accessionem esse naturalis partis existimant. We may take Gellius’ statement (11 8) that Ep. inverted the order of the syllo- gism, as a sign that he had treated the subject with his usual independence and originality of thought; and the treatise of Philodemus mept onueiwv kal onyecwoewy Shows that the Inductive Logic at any rate was deeply studied by some of the later Epicureans. gens vestra ‘your people’ is used, like natio (cf. 11 74 salem istum, quo caret vestra natio) and é6vos, for a set or class of people : similarly familia, of a philosophic sect, Div. 11 3.
argumentis sententiam conclusisti. Most mss have argumenti, but this could only mean ‘the general sense of the argument,’ which does not