Sec.125. Verecundius:  cf. 114 subadroganter. Vincam animum:  a common phrase in Cic., cf. Philipp. XII. 21. Queru potissimum? quem?:  In repeated questions of this kind Cic. usually puts the corresponding case of quisnam, not quis, in the second question, as in Verr. IV. 5.  The mutation of Augustine Contra Ac. III. 33 makes it probable that quemnam was the original reading here.  Zumpt on Verr. qu.  Quint.  IX. 2, 61, Plin. Epist. I. 20, who both mention this trick of style, and laud it for its likeness to impromptu. Nobilitatis:  this is to be explained by referring to 73—­75 (imitari numquam nisi clarum, nisi nobilem), where Cic. protests against being compared to a demagogue, and claims to follow the aristocracy of philosophy.  The attempts of the commentators to show that Democr. was literally an aristocrat have failed. Convicio:  cf. 34. Completa et conferta:  n. on I. 27. Quod movebitur ... cedat:  this is the theory of motion disproved by Lucr.  I. 370 sq., cf. also N.D. II. 83.  Halm writes quo quid for quod (with Christ), and inserts corpus before cedat, Baiter following him.  The text is sound.  Trans. “whatever body is pushed, gives way.” Tam sit mirabilis:  n. on I. 25. Innumerabilis:  55. Supra infra:  n. on 92. Ut nos nunc simus, etc.:  n. on fragm. 13 of Ac.  Post. Disputantis:  55. Animo videre:  cf. 22. Imagines:  [Greek:  eidola], which Catius translated (Ad Fam. XV. 16) by spectra, Zeller 432. Tu vero:  etc. this is all part of the personal convicium supposed to be directly addressed to Cic. by the Antiocheans, and beginning at Tune aut inane above. Commenticiis:  a favourite word of Cic., cf. De Div. II. 113.

Sec.126. Quae tu:  elliptic for ut comprobem quae tu comprobas cf. 125. Impudenter:  115. Atque haud scio:  atque here = [Greek:  kaitoi], “and yet,” n. on 5 ac vereor. Invidiam:  cf. 144. Cum his:  i.e. aliis cum his. Summus deus:  “the highest form of the deity” who was of course one in the Stoic system.  Ether is the finest fire, and [Greek:  pyr technikon] is one of the definitions of the Stoic deity, cf.  I. 29, Zeller 161 sq. Solem:  as of course being the chief seat of fire. Solis autem ... nego credere:  Faber first gave ac monet for MSS. admonens, which Halm retains, Manut. then restored to its place permensi refertis, which MSS. have after nego. Hic, which MSS. have after decempeda, Madv. turns into hunc, while hoc, which stands immediately after nego, he ejects (Em. 187). Ergo after vos is of course analeptic.  Halm departs somewhat from this arrangement. Leniter:  Halm and Hermann leviter; the former reads inverecundior after Morgenstern, for what reason it is difficult to see.