Sec.69. Non acrius:  one of the early editions omits non while Goer. reads acutius and puts a note of interrogation at defensitaverat.  M. Em. 161 points out the absurdity of making Cic. say that the old arguments of Antiochus in favour of Academicism were weaker than his new arguments against it. Quis enim:  so Lamb. for MSS. quisquam enim. Excogitavit:  on interrogations not introduced by a particle of any kind see Madv. Gram. 450. Eadem dicit:  on the subject in hand, of course.  Taken without this limitation the proposition is not strictly true, see n. on 132. Sensisse:  = iudicasse, n. on I. 22. Mnesarchi ...  Dardani:  see Dict.  Biogr.

Sec.70. Revocata est:  Manut. here wished to read renovata, cf. n. on I. 14. Nominis dignitatem, etc.:  hence Aug. Contra Acad. III. 41 calls him foeneus ille Platonicus Antiochus (that tulchan Platonist). Gloriae causa:  cf.  Aug. ibid. II. 15 Antiochus gloriae cupidior quam veritatis. Facere dicerent:  so Camerarius for the MSS. facerent. Sustinere:  cf. 115 sustinuero Epicureos. Sub Novis:  Faber’s brilliant em. for the MSS. sub nubes.  The Novae Tabernae were in the forum, and are often mentioned by Cic. and Livy.  In De Or. II. 266 a story is told of Caesar, who, while speaking sub Veteribus, points to a “tabula” which hangs sub Novis.  The excellence of Faber’s em. may be felt by comparing that of Manut. sub nube, and that of Lamb. nisi sub nube.  I have before remarked that b is frequently written in MSS. for v. Maenianorum:  projecting eaves, according to Festus s.v.  They were probably named from their inventor like Vitelliana, Vatinia etc.

Sec.71. Quoque ... argumento:  the sentence is anacoluthic, the broken thread is picked up by quod argumentum near the end. Utrum:  the neuter pronoun, not the so called conjunction, the two alternatives are marked by ne and an.  The same usage is found in D.F. II. 60, T.D. IV. 9, and must be carefully distinguished from the use of utrum ... ne ... an, which occurs not unfrequently in Cic., e g De Invent. II. 115 utrum copiane sit agri an penuria consideratur.  On this point cf.  M. Em. 163, Gram. 452, obs. 1, 2, Zumpt on Cic. Verr. IV. 73. Honesti inane nomen esse:  a modern would be inclined to write honestum, in apposition to nomen, cf. D.F. V. 18 voluptatis alii putant primum appetitum. Voluptatem etc.:  for the conversion of Dionysius (called [Greek:  ho metathemenos]) from Stoicism to Epicureanism cf. T.D. II. 60, Diog.  Laert.  VII. 166—­7. A vero:  “coming from a reality,” cf. 41, n. Is curavit:  Goer. reads his, “solet V. D. in hoc pronomen saevire,” says Madv.  The scribes often prefix h to parts of the pronoun is, and Goer. generally patronises their vulgar error.