Sec.80. Hoc est verum esse:  Madv. Em. 177 took verum as meaning fair, candid, in this explanation I concur.  Madv., however, in his critical epistle to Orelli p. 139 abandoned it and proposed virum esse, a very strange em.  Halm’s conj. certum esse is weak and improbable. Importune:  this is in one good MS. but the rest have importata, a good em. is needed, as importune does not suit the sense of the passage. Negat ... torsisset:  for the tenses cf. 104 exposuisset, adiungit. Cum oculum torsisset:  i.e. by placing the finger beneath the eye and pressing upwards or sideways.  Cf.  Aristot. Eth.  Eud. VII. 13 (qu. by Dav.) [Greek:  ophthalmous diastrepsanta hoste duo to hen phanenai].  Faber qu.  Arist. Problemata XVII. 31 [Greek:  dia ti eis to plagion kinousi ton ophthalmon ou (?) phainetai duo to hen].  Also ib. XXXI. 3 inquiring the reason why drunkards see double he says [Greek:  tauto touto gignetai kai ean tis katothen piese ton ophthalmon].  Sextus refers to the same thing P.H. I. 47, A.M. VII. 192 ([Greek:  ho parapiesas ton ophthalmon]) so Cic. De Div. II. 120.  Lucretius gives the same answer as Timagoras, propter opinatus animi (IV. 465), as does Sext. A.M. VII. 210 on behalf of Epicurus. Sed hic:  Bait. sit hic. Maiorum:  cf. 143. Quasi quaeratur:  Carneades refused to discuss about things in themselves but merely dealt with the appearances they present, [Greek:  to gar alethes kai to pseudes en tois pragmasi synechorei] (Numen in Euseb. Pr.  Eu. XIV. 8).  Cf. also Sext. P.H. I. 78, 87, 144, II. 75. Domi nascuntur:  a proverb used like [Greek:  glauk’ es’ Athenas] and “coals to Newcastle,” see Lorenz on Plaut. Miles II. 2, 38, and cf. Ad Att. X. 14, 2, Ad Fam. IX. 3. Deus:  cf. 19. Audiret ... ageret:  MSS. have audies ... agerent.  As the insertion of n in the imp. subj. is so common in MSS.  I read ageret and alter audies to suit it.  Halm has audiret ... ageretur with Dav., Bait. audiet, egerit. Ex hoc loco video ... cerno:  MSS. have loco cerno regionem video Pompeianum non cerno whence Lipsius conj. ex hoc loco e regione video.  Halm ejects the words regionem video, I prefer to eject cerno regionem.  We are thus left with the slight change from video to cerno, which is very often found in Cic., e.g. Orat. 18.  Cic. sometimes however joins the two verbs as in De Or. III. 161. O praeclarum prospectum:  the view was a favourite one with Cic., see Ad Att. I. 13, 5.