Sec.137. Tam sunt defendenda:  cf. 8, 120. Bono modo:  a colloquial and Plautine expression; see Forc. Ad senatum starent:  “were in waiting on the senate;” cf. such phrases as stare ad cyathum, etc. Carneade:  the vocative is Carneades in De Div. I. 23. Huic Stoico:  i.e. Diogeni; cf. D.F. II. 24.  Halm brackets Stoico, and after him Bait. Sequi volebat:  “professed to follow;” cf. D.F. V. 13 Strato physicum se voluit “gave himself out to be a physical philosopher:”  also Madv. on D.F. II. 102. Ille noster:  Dav. vester, as in 143 noster Antiochus.  But in both places Cic. speaks as a friend of Antiochus; cf. 113. Balbutiens:  “giving an uncertain sound;” cf. De Div. I. 5, T.D. V. 75.

Sec.138. Mihi veremini:  cf.  Caes. Bell.  Gall.  V. 9 veritus navibus.  Halm and Bait. follow Christ’s conj. verenti, removing the stop at voltis. Opinationem:  the [Greek:  oiesin] of Sext., e.g. P.H. III. 280. Quod minime voltis:  cf.  I. 18. De finibus:  not “concerning,” but “from among” the different fines; otherwise fine would have been written.  Cf.  I. 4 si qui de nostris. Circumcidit et amputat:  these two verbs often come together, as in D.F. I. 44; cf. also D.F. III. 31. Si vacemus omni molestia:  which Epicurus held to be the highest pleasure. Cum honestate:  Callipho in 131. Prima naturae commoda:  Cic. here as in D.F. IV. 59, V. 58 confuses the Stoic [Greek:  prota kata physin] with [Greek:  ta tou somatos agatha kai ta ektos] of the Peripatetics, for which see I. 19.  More on the subject in Madvig’s fourth Excursus to the D.F. Relinquit:  Orelli relinqui against the MSS.

Sec.139. Polemonis ... finibus:  all these were composite fines. Adhuc:  I need scarcely point out that this goes with habeo and not with probabilius; adhuc for etiam with the comparative does not occur till the silver writers. Labor eo:  cf.  Horace’s nunc in Aristippi furtim praecepta relabor, also D.F. V. 6 rapior illuc:  revocat autem Antiochus. Reprehendit manu:  M.D.F. II. 3. Pecudum:  I. 6, Parad. 14 voluptatem esse summum bonum, quae mihi vox pecudum videtur esse non hominum; similar expressions occur with a reference to Epicurus in De Off. I. 105, Lael. 20, 32. T.D. V. 73, D.F. II. 18; cf. also Aristoph. Plut. 922 [Greek:  probatiou bion legeis] and [Greek:  boskematon bios] in Aristotle.  The meaning of pecus is well shown in T.D. I. 69. Iungit deo:  Zeller 176 sq. Animum solum:  the same criticism is applied to Zeno’s finis in D.F. IV. 17, 25. Ut ... sequar:  for the repeated