Sec.132. Quemlibet:  cf. 125, 126. Prope singularem:  cf. T.D. I. 22 Aristoteles longe omnibus—­Platonem semper excipio—­praestans; also D.F. V. 7, De Leg. I. 15. Per ipsum Antiochum:  a similar line of argument is taken in Sext. P.H. I. 88, II. 32, etc. Terminis ... possessione:  there is a similar play on the legal words finis terminus possessio in De Leg. I. 55, 56, a noteworthy passage. Omnis ratio etc.:  this is the constant language of the later Greek philosophy; cf.  Aug. De Civ.  Dei XIX. 1 neque enim existimat (Varro) ullam philosophiae sectam esse dicendam, quae non eo distat a ceteris, quod diversos habeat fines bonorum et malorum, etc. Si Polemoneus:  i.e. sapiens fuerit. Peccat:  a Stoic term turned on the Stoics, see I. 37. Academicos et:  MSS. om. et as in I. 16, and que in 52 of this book. Dicenda:  for the omission of the verb with the gerundive (which occurs chiefly in emphatic clauses) cf.  I. 7, and Madv. on D.F. I. 43, who how ever unduly limits the usage. Hic igitur ... prudentior:  MSS. generally have assentiens, but one good one (Halm’s E) has assentientes.  I venture to read adsentietur, thinking that the last two letters were first dropt, as in 26 (tenetur) and that then adsentiet, under the attraction of the s following, passed into adsentiens, as in 147 intellegat se passed into intelligentes. N, I may remark, is frequently inserted in MSS. (as in I. 7 appellant, 16 disputant, 24 efficerentur), and all the changes involved in my conj. are of frequent occurrence.  I also read sin, inquam (sc. adsentietur) for si numquam of MSS.  The question uter est prudentior is intended to press home the dilemma in which Cicero has placed the supposed sapiens.  All the other emendations I have seen are too unsatisfactory to be enumerated.

Sec.133. Non posse ... esse:  this seems to me sound; Bait. however reads non esse illa probanda sap. after Lamb., who also conj. non posse illa probata esse. Paria:  D.F. III. 48, Paradoxa 20 sq., Zeller 250. Praecide:  [Greek:  syntomos] or [Greek:  synelon eipe], cf. Cat.  Mai. 57, Ad Att. VIII. 4, X. 16. Inquit:  n. on 79. Quid quod quae:  so Guietus with the approval of Madv. (Em. 203) reads for MSS. quid quae or quid quaeque, Halm and Bait., follow Moser in writing Quid? si quae removing the stop at paria, and make in utramque partem follow dicantur, on Orelli’s suggestion.  When several relative pronouns come together the MSS. often omit one. Dicebas:  in 27. Incognito:  133.