Sec.127. Pabulum:  similar language in D.F. II. 46. Consideratio contemplatioque:  Cic. is fond of this combination, as De Off. I. 153; cf.  Wesenberg on T.D. V. 9, who qu. similar combinations from D.F. V. 11, 58. Elatiores:  MSS. mostly have latiores.  Halm with Lamb. reads altiores, in support of which reading Dav. qu. D.F. II. 51, Val.  Flaccus Argon. II. 547, add Virg. Aen. VI. 49, Cic. Orat. 119. Exigua et minima:  [Greek:  smikra kai elachista].  Madv. on D.F. V. 78 notes that except here Cic. always writes exigua et paene minima or something of the kind. Occultissimarum:  n. on I. 15. Occurit ... completur:  MSS. have occuret mostly, if that is retained complebitur must be read.  Madv. Opusc. II. 282 takes occurit, explaining it as a perfect, and giving numerous exx. of this sequence of tenses, cf. also Wesenb. on T.D. IV. 35.

Sec.128. Agi secum:  cf. nobiscum ageret in 80. Simile veri:  cf. 66. Notionem:  = cognitionem, [Greek:  epistemen]. At paulum:  MSS. et Halm sed.; cf. at illud ante in 116. Si quae:  Halm and many edd. have se, quae.  But the se comes in very awkwardly, and is not needed before the infinitive.  Madv. indeed (Em. 114), after producing many exx. of the reflexive pronoun omitted, says that he doubts about this passage because considero does not belong to the class of verbs with which this usage is found, but he produces many instances with puto, which surely stands on the same level. Non magis:  so in 119 nec magis approbabit nunc lucere, etc.  The sunlight was the stock example of a most completely cognisable phenomenon; hence the Academics showed their hostility to absolute knowledge by refusing [Greek:  ton helion homologein einai katalepton] (Galen De Opt.  Gen. Dicendi 497 B qu.  P. Valentia 304 ed.  Or.). Cornix:  for the Stoic belief in divination see Zeller 349—­358. Signum illud:  the xystus (9) was adorned with statues; edd. qu.  Plin. Nat.  Hist. XXXIV. 8. Duodeviginti:  82, I just note that octodecim is not used by Cic. Sol quantus sit:  91. Omnium rerum ... comprehendendi:  not a case of a plural noun with a singular gerund like spe rerum potiendi, etc., but of two genitives depending in different ways on the same word (definitio).  M. Em. 197 qu.  Plat. Leg. 648 E [Greek:  ten panton hettan phoboumenos anthropon toi pomatos], Brut. 163 Scaevolae dicendi elegantia, De Or. III. 156.  Other exx. in M.D.F. I. 14.  For the turn of expression cf. T.D. IV. 62 omnium philosophorum una est ratio medendi, Lael. 78 omnium horum vitiorum una cautio est, also 51 of this book.