BOOK I CH. VI § 13. 81

physici, aut artificiosa, ut mathematic, sed de dllustri et facili loquitur. It corrresponds to the Gr. évapyyjs, as in Sext. Emp. vit 161, 4 atc@nois mas taQoved, Kata THY TaV evapyav Umontwow évdeckyver TA Tpaypata. ev dpa T@ amo évapyelas Taber THs Wuyis (ytnTéov eort Td Kpirnpiov, and § 171 where he distinguishes between the dyvdpa davracia and that which apodpov éxovoa td aiverOa avtny adnOA mAnktixworépay (insignem) toyec davraciay, also § 257. Similarly Descartes (Meditation 4) made the clear- ness and distinctness of the idea his criterion of certainty, see Locke bk It ch. 29.
c. Preamble to the dialogue itself. In order that the reader may be enabled to form his own judgment on the matter, Cicero reports a conversation held at the house of the pontifer C. Aurelius Cotta in which the Epicureans were represented by C. Velleius, the Stoics by Q. Lucilius Balbus, and the Academics by Cotta, Cicero forming the audience. Vi. §§ 13—17.
Ch. vi. § 13. invidia liberem: ‘to free myself from the odium of maintaining the Academic or negative position that we can know nothing about the Gods, I will lay before my readers the positive views of various schools’. On the invidia attaching to the Academics see Ac. 11 105 sint falsa sane, invidiosa certe non sunt: non enim lucem eripimus ; Augustine Ac. 1112 hine tis invidia magna conflata est: videbatur enim esse consequens ut nihil ageret qui nihil approbaret ; on the contrary they affirmed nillo modo cessare sapientem ab officiis cum haberet quid sequeretur; Lact. m1 6 if Arcesilas had confined his scepticism to physics et se ipswin calumniae invidia liberasset et nobis certe dedisset aliquid quod sequeremur.
quo loco: ‘and in this matter’. On the omission of 7m see Madvig § 273 b.
qui judicent : ‘I invite all the world to listen and decide which of them is true’; not as Sch. ‘die Dogmatiker, alle Solche die ein bestimmtes Urtheil aussprechen’.
tum demum procax: ‘then only shall I allow that the Academy is too saucy (wanting in respect for the other schools) if someone shall have been found to have discovered the truth’. So in Leg. 113 the Academy is said to be perturbatriz omnium rerum. Cf. Div. 11 53 at impudentes sumus qui, cum tam perspicuum sit, non concedamus, Rep. 111 9 Carneades saepe optimas causas ingenii calumnia ludificari solet: Augustine however makes Arcesi- laus the chief offender, Ac. 111 39 Carneades illam velut calumniandi im- pudentiam qua videbat Arcesilam non mediocriter infamatum deposuit, ne contra omnia velle dicere quasi ostentationis causa videretur. [I suspect pervicax is the true reading. The obstinacy of the Academics in refusing to see the truth is the point insisted on by the dogmatists, cf. Ac. 11 65, Fin. 12, August. Ac. 1. J.8. BJ
ut est in Synephebis: ‘as we read in the Comrades’, a fabula palliata