283. Patefacturum:  n. on 26, [Greek:  ekkalyptein, ekkalyptikos, delotikos] (the last in Sext. A.M. VIII. 277) often recur in Greek. Primum esse ... nihil interesse:  there is no inconsistency.  Carneades allowed that visa, in themselves, might be true or false, but affirmed that human faculties were incapable of distinguishing those visa which proceed from real things and give a correct representation of the things, from those which either are mere phantoms or, having a real source, do not correctly represent it.  Lucullus confuses essential with apparent difference. Non iungitur:  a supposed case of [Greek:  diartesis], which is opposed to [Greek:  synartesis] and explained in Sext. A.M. VIII. 430.

Sec.45. Assentati:  here simply = assensi. Praeteritis:  here used in the strong participial sense, “in the class of things passed over,” cf. in remissis Orat. 59. Primum igitur ... sed tamen:  for the slight anacoluthia cf.  Madv. Gram. 480. Iis qui videntur:  Goer. is qui videtur, which is severely criticised by Madv. Em. 150.  For Epicurus’ view of sensation see n. on 79, 80.

Sec.Sec.46—­48.  Summary.  The refusal of people to assent to the innate clearness of some phenomena ([Greek:  enargeia]) is due to two causes, (1) they do not make a serious endeavour to see the light by which these phenomena are surrounded, (2) their faith is shaken by sceptic paradoxes (46).  The sceptics argue thus:  you allow that mere phantom sensations are often seen in dreams, why then do you not allow what is easier, that two sensations caused by two really existing things may be mistaken the one for the other? (47).  Further, they urge that a phantom sensation produces very often the same effect as a real one.  The dogmatists say they admit that mere phantom sensations do command assent.  Why should they not admit that they command assent when they so closely resemble real ones as to be indistinguishable from them? (48)

Sec.46. Circumfusa sint:  Goer. retains the MSS. sunt on the ground that the clause quanta sint is inserted [Greek:  parenthetikos]!  Orelli actually follows him.  For the phrase cf. 122 circumfusa tenebris. Interrogationibus:  cf.  I. 5 where I showed that the words interrogatio and conclusio are convertible.  I may add that in Sextus pure syllogisms are very frequently called [Greek:  eroteseis], and that he often introduces a new argument by [Greek:  erotatai kai touto], when there is nothing interrogatory about the argument at all. Dissolvere:  [Greek:  apolyesthai] in Sext. Occurrere:  cf. 44.