Sec.121. Posse:  n. on I. 29. Strato:  R. and P. 331. Sed cum:  sed often marks a very slight contrast, there is no need to read et, as Halm. Asperis ... corporibus:  cf. fragm. 28 of the Ac.  Post., also N.D. I. 66. Somnia:  so N.D. I. 18 miracula non disserentium philosophorum sed somniantium, ib. I. 42 non philosophorum iudicia sed delirantium somnia, also ib. I. 66 flagitia Democriti. Docentis:  giving proof. Optantis:  Guietus humorously conj. potantis, Durand oscitantis (cf. N.D. I. 72), others opinantis.  That the text is sound however may be seen from T.D. II. 30 optare hoc quidem est non docere, De Fato 46, N.D. I. 19 optata magis quam inventa, ib. III. 12 doceas oportet nec proferas; cf. also Orat. 59 vocis bonitas optanda est, non est enim in nobis, i.e. a good voice is a thing to be prayed for, and not to be got by exertion.  There is a similar Greek proverb, [Greek:  euche mallon e aletheia], in Sext. P.H. VIII. 353. Magno opere:  Hermann wishes to read onere.  The phrase magnum onus is indeed common (cf. De Or. I. 116), but magnum opus, in the sense of “a great task,” is equally so, cf. T.D. III. 79, 84, Orat. 75. Modo hoc modo illud:  134.

Sec.122. Latent ista:  see n. on fragm. 29 of the Ac.  Post.; for latent cf.  I. 45.  Aug. Cont.  Ac. II. 12, III. 1 imitates this passage. Circumfusa:  cf.  I. 44, and 46 of this book. Medici:  cf. T.D. I. 46 Viderentur:  a genuine passive, cf. 25, 39, 81. Empirici:  a school of physicians so called. Ut ... mutentur:  exactly the same answer was made recently to Prof.  Huxley’s speculations on protoplasm; he was said to have assumed that the living protoplasm would have the same properties as the dead. Media pendeat:  cf. N.D. II. 98, De Or. III. 178.

Sec.123. Habitari ait:  for this edd. qu.  Lactant. Inst. III. 23, 12. Portenta:  “monstrosities these,” cf. D.F. IV. 70. Iurare:  cf. 116. Neque ego, etc.:  see fragm. 30 of Ac.  Post. [Greek:  Antipodas]:  this doctrine appears in Philolaus (see Plut. Plac.  Phil. III. 11 qu.  R. and P. 75), who give the name of [Greek:  antichthon] to the opposite side of the world.  Diog.  VIII. 26 (with which passage cf.  Stob. Phys. XV. 7) mentions the theory as Pythagorean, but in another passage (III. 24) says that Plato first invented the name.  The word [Greek:  antipous] seems to occur first in Plat. Tim. 63 A. The existence of [Greek:  antipodes]; was of course bound up with the doctrine that the universe or the world is a globe (which is held by Plat. in the Tim. and by the Stoics, see Stob. Phys. XV. 6, Diog.