Sec.95. Tollit ... superiora:  cf. Hortensius fragm. 19 (Orelli) sed ad extremum pollicetur prolaturum qui se ipse comest quod efficit dialecticorum ratio. Vestra an nostra:  Bait. after Christ needlessly writes nostra an vestra. [Greek:  axioma]:  “a judgment expressed in language”; cf.  Zeller 107, who gives the Stoic refinements on this subject. Effatum:  Halm gives the spelling ecfatum.  It is probable that this spelling was antique in Cic.’s time and only used in connection with religious and legal formulae as in De Div. I. 81, De Leg. II. 20, see Corss. Ausspr. I. 155 For the word cf.  Sen. Ep. 117 enuntiativum quiddam de corpore quod alii effatum vocant, alii enuntiatum, alii edictum, in T.D. I. 14 pronuntiatum is found, in De Fato 26 pronuntiatio, in Gellius XVI. 8 (from Varro) prologium. Aut verum esse aut falsum:  the constant Stoic definition of [Greek:  axioma], see Diog.  VII. 65 and other passages in Zeller 107. Mentiris an verum dicis:  the an was added by Schutz on a comparison of Gellius XVIII. 10 cum mentior et mentiri me dico, mentior an verum dico? The sophism is given in a more formally complete shape in De Div. II. 11 where the following words are added, dicis autem te mentiri verumque dicis, mentiris igitur.  The fallacy is thus hit by Petrus Valentia (p. 301, ed Orelli), quis unquam dixit “ego mentior” quum hoc ipsum pronuntiatum falsum vellet declarare? Inexplicabilia:  [Greek:  apora] in the Greek writers. Odiosius:  this adj. has not the strong meaning of the Eng. “hateful,” but simply means “tiresome,” “annoying.” Non comprehensa:  as in 99, the opposite of comprehendibilia III. 1, 41.  The past partic. in Cic. often has the same meaning as an adj. in _-bilis_.  Faber points out that in the Timaeus Cic. translates [Greek:  alytos] by indissolutus and indissolubilis indifferently. Imperceptus, which one would expect, is found in Ovid.

Sec.96. Si dicis:  etc. the words in italics are needed, and were given by Manut. with the exception of nunc which was added by Dav.  The idea of Orelli, that Cic. clipped these trite sophisms as he does verses from the comic writers is untenable. In docendo:  docere is not to expound but to prove, cf. n. on 121. Primum ... modum:  the word modus is technical in this sense cf. Top. 57.  The [Greek:  protos logos anapodeiktos] of the Stoic logic ran thus [Greek:  ei hemera esti, phos estin ... alla men hemera estin phos ara estin] (Sext. P.H. II. 157, and other passages qu.  Zeller 114).  This bears a semblance of inference and is not so utterly tautological as Cic.’s translation, which merges [Greek:  phos] and [Greek:  hemera] into one word, or that of Zeller (114, note).  These arguments are called [Greek:  monolemmatoi]