Yet his whole school cannot point to any actual sapiens (145).  Now as there is no knowledge there can be no art.  How would Zeuxis and Polycletus like this conclusion?  They would prefer mine, to which our ancestors bear testimony.

Sec.142. Venio iam:  Dialectic had been already dealt with in 91—­98 here it is merely considered with a view to the choice of the supposed sapiens, as was Ethical Science in 129—­141 and Physics in 116—­128.  With the enumeration of conflicting schools here given compare the one Sextus gives in A.M. VII. 48 sq. Protagorae:  R. and P. 132 sq. Qui putet:  so MSS., Halm and Bait. putat after Lamb.  Trans. “inasmuch as he thinks”. Permotiones intimas:  cf. 20 tactus interior, also 76. Epicuri:  nn. on 19, 79, 80. Iudicium:  [Greek:  kriterion] as usual. Rerum notitiis:  [Greek:  prolepsesi], Zeller 403 sq. Constituit:  note the constr. with in, like ponere in. Cogitationis:  cf.  I. 30.  Several MSS. have cognitionis, the two words are frequently confused.  See Wesenberg Fm. to T.D. III. p. 17, who says, multo tamen saepius “cogitatio” pro “cognitio” substituitur quam contra, also M.D.F III. 21.

Sec.143. Ne maiorum quidem suorum:  sc. aliquid probat.  For maiorum cf. 80.  Here Plato is almost excluded from the so-called vetus Academia, cf.  I. 33. Libri:  titles of some are preserved in Diog.  Laert.  IV. 11—­14. Nihil politius:  cf. 119, n. Pedem nusquam:  for the ellipse cf. 58, 116, Pro Deiot. 42 and pedem latum in Plaut. Abutimur:  this verb in the rhetorical writers means to use words in metaphorical or unnatural senses, see Quint.  X. 1, 12.  This is probably the meaning here; “do we use the name Academic in a non natural fashion?” Si dies est lucet:  a better trans of [Greek:  ei phos estin, hemera estin] than was given in 96, where see n. Aliter Philoni:  not Philo of Larissa, but a noted dialectician, pupil of Diodorus the Megarian, mentioned also in 75.  The dispute between Diodorus and Philo is mentioned in Sext. A.M. VIII. 115—­117 with the same purpose as here, see also Zeller 39. Antipater:  the Stoic of Tarsus, who succeeded Diogenes Babylonius in the headship of the school. Archidemus:  several times mentioned with Antipater in Diog., as VII. 68, 84. Opiniosissimi:  so the MSS.  I cannot think that the word is wrong, though all edd. condemn it.  Halm is certainly mistaken in saying that a laudatory epithet such as ingeniosissimi is necessary.  I believe that the word opiniosissimi (an adj. not elsewhere used by Cic.) was manufactured on the spur of the moment, in order to ridicule these two philosophers, who are playfully described as men full of opinio or [Greek:  doxa]—­just the imputation which, as Stoics, they would most repel.  Hermann’s spinosissimi is ingenious, and if an em. were needed, would not be so utterly improbable as Halm thinks.