Sec.119. Sic animo ... sensibus:  knowledge according to the Stoics was homogeneous throughout, no one thing could be more or less known than another. Nunc lucere:  cf. 98, also 128 non enim magis adsentiuntur, etc. Mundum sapientem:  for this Stoic doctrine see N.D. I. 84, II. 32, etc. Fabricata sit:  see 87 n. Solem:  126. Animalis intellegentia:  reason is the essence of the universe with the Stoics, cf.  Zeller 138—­9, also 28, 29 of Book I. Permanet:  the deity is to the Stoic [Greek:  pneuma endiekon di holou tou kosmou] (Plut. De Plac.  Phil. I. 7 qu.  R. and P. 375), spiritus per omnia maxima ac minima aequali intentione diffusus. (Seneca, Consol. ad Helvid. 8, 3 qu.  Zeller 147). Deflagret:  the Stoics considered the [Greek:  kosmos phthartos], cf.  Diog.  VII. 141, Zeller 156—­7. Fateri:  cf. tam vera quam falsa cernimus in 111. Flumen aureum:  Plut. Vita Cic. 24 alludes to this ([Greek:  hoti chrysiou potamos eie reontos]).  This is the constant judgment of Cic. about Aristotle’s style.  Grote, Aristot. Vol I. p. 43, quotes Topica 3, De Or. I. 49, Brut. 121, N.D. II. 93, De Inv. II. 6, D.F. I. 14, Ad Att. II. 1, and discusses the difficulty of applying this criticism to the works of Aristotle which we possess. Nulla vis:  cf.  I. 28. Exsistere:  Walker conj. efficere, “recte ut videtur” says Halm.  Bait. adopts it. Ornatus:  = [Greek:  kosmos].

Sec.120. Libertas ... non esse:  a remarkable construction.  For the Academic liberty see Introd. p. 18. Quod tibi est:  after these words Halm puts merely a comma, and inserting respondere makes cur deus, etc. part of the same sentence.  Bait. follows. Nostra causa:  Cic. always writes mea, tua, vestra, nostra causa, not mei, tui, nostri, vestri, just as he writes sua sponte, but not sponte alicuius.  For the Stoic opinion that men are the chief care of Providence, see N.D. I. 23, II. 37, D.F. III. 67, Ac. I. 29 etc., also Zeller.  The difficulties surrounding the opinion are treated of in Zeller 175, N.D. II. 91—­127.  They supply in Sext. P.H. I. 32, III. 9—­12 an example of the refutation of [Greek:  nooumena] by means of [Greek:  nooumena]. Tam multa ac:  MSS. om. ac, which I insert.  Lactantius qu. the passage without perniciosa. Myrmecides:  an actual Athenian artist, famed for minute work in ivory, and especially for a chariot which a fly covered with its wings, and a ship which the wings of a bee concealed.  See Plin. Nat.  Hist. VII. 21, XXXVI. 5.