Sext. Adv.  Math. VIII. 280 [Greek:  ou dioisei tes atechnias he techne].  Sextus often comments on similar complaints of the Stoics. Aliud eiusmodi genus sit:  this distinction is as old as Plato and Arist., and is of constant occurrence in the late philosophy.  Cf.  Sext. Adv.  Math. XI. 197 who adds a third class of [Greek:  technai] called [Greek:  apotelesmatikai] to the usual [Greek:  theoretikai] and [Greek:  praktikai], also Quint.  II. 18, 1 and 2, where [Greek:  poietike] corresponds to the [Greek:  apot.] of Sext. Continget:  “will be the natural consequence.”  The notion that the verb contingit denotes necessarily good fortune is quite unfounded; see Tischer on T.D. III. 4. Tractabit:  [Greek:  mellei metacheirizesthai].

Sec.23. Cognitio:  like Germ. lehre, the branch of learning which concerns the virtues.  Goer. is quite wrong in taking it to be a trans. of [Greek:  katalepsis] here. In quibus:  the antecedent is not virtutum, as Petrus Valentia (p. 292 ed.  Orelli) supposes and gets into difficulty thereby, but multa.  This is shown by etiam; not merely the virtues but also all [Greek:  episteme] depends on [Greek:  katalepseis]; cf.  I. 40, 41, with notes, Zeller 88, R. and P. 367. Stabilem:  [Greek:  bebaion kai ametaptotou]. Artem vivendi:  “tralaticium hoc apud omnes philosophos” M.D.F. I. 42.  Sextus constantly talks about [Greek:  he oneiropoloumene peri ton bion techne] (Pyrrh.  Hyp. III. 250) the existence of which he disproves to his own satisfaction (Adv.  Math. XI. 168 sq). Ille vir bonus:  in all ancient systems, even the Epicurean, the happiness of the sapiens must be proof against the rack; cf. esp. D.F. III. 29, 75, T.D. V. 73, Zeller 450, and the similar description of the [Greek:  sophos] in Plato’s Gorgias. Potius quam aut:  Lamb. ut; but I think C.F.  Hermann is right in asserting after Wopkens that Cic. never inserts ut after potius quam with the subj.  Tischer on T.D. II. 52 affirms that ut is frequently found, but gives no exx.  For the meaning cf. De Off. I. 86, Aug. Cont.  Ac. II. 12 who says the sapiens of the Academy must be desertor officiorum omnium. Comprehensi ... constituti:  cf. the famous abiit, evasit, excessit, crupit. Iis rebus:  note the assumption that the sensation corresponds to the thing which causes it. Adsensus sit ... possint:  nearly all edd. before Halm read possunt, but the subj. expresses the possibility as present to the mind of the supposed vir bonus.  Cf.  Madv. Gram. 368.

Sec.24. Primum:  out of place, see on 21. Agere:  the dogmatist always held that the sceptic must, if consistent, be [Greek:  anenergetos en bioi] (Sext. Pyrrh.  Hyp. I. 23). Extremum:  similar attempts to translate [Greek:  telos] are made in D.F.  I. 11, 29, V. 17. Cum quid agere:  cf.  I. 23 for the phrase Naturae accommodatum. a purely Stoic expression, [Greek:  homoiomenon te physei]; cf. 38 and D.F. V. 17, also III. 16, Zeller 227, footnote, R. and P. 390. Impellimur:  [Greek:  kinoumetha], Sext. Adv.  Math. VII. 391, as often.