§119. _Sic animo ... sensibus_: knowledge according to the Stoics was homogeneous throughout, no one thing could be more or less known than another. _Nunc lucere_: cf. 98, also 128 _non enim magis adsentiuntur_, etc. _Mundum sapientem_: for this Stoic doctrine see _N.D._ I. 84, II. 32, etc. _Fabricata sit_: see 87 n. _Solem_: 126. _Animalis intellegentia_: reason is the essence of the universe with the Stoics, cf. Zeller 138--9, also 28, 29 of Book I. _Permanet_: the deity is to the Stoic πνευμα ενδιηκον δι ‛ολου του κοσμου (Plut. _De Plac. Phil._ I. 7 qu. R. and P. 375), _spiritus per omnia maxima ac minima aequali intentione diffusus._ (Seneca, _Consol. ad Helvid._ 8, 3 qu. Zeller 147). _Deflagret_: the Stoics considered the κοσμος φθαρτος, cf. Diog. VII. 141, Zeller 156--7. _Fateri_: cf. _tam vera quam falsa cernimus_ in 111. _Flumen aureum_: Plut. _Vita Cic._ 24 alludes to this (‛οτι χρυσιου ποταμος ειη ρεοντος). This is the constant judgment of Cic. about Aristotle's style. Grote, _Aristot._ Vol I. p. 43, quotes _Topica_ 3, _De Or._ I. 49, _Brut._ 121, _N.D._ II. 93, _De Inv._ II. 6, _D.F._ I. 14, _Ad Att._ II. 1, and discusses the difficulty of applying this criticism to the works of Aristotle which we possess. _Nulla vis_: cf. I. 28. _Exsistere_: Walker conj. _efficere_, "_recte ut videtur_" says Halm. Bait. adopts it. _Ornatus_: = κοσμος.
§120. _Libertas ... non esse_: a remarkable construction. For the Academic liberty see Introd. p. 18. _Quod tibi est_: after these words Halm puts merely a comma, and inserting _respondere_ makes _cur deus_, etc. part of the same sentence. Bait. follows. _Nostra causa_: Cic. always writes _mea, tua, vestra, nostra causa_, not _mei, tui, nostri, vestri_, just as he writes _sua sponte_, but not _sponte alicuius_. For the Stoic opinion that men are the chief care of Providence, see _N.D._ I. 23, II. 37, _D.F._ III. 67, _Ac._ I. 29 etc., also Zeller. The difficulties surrounding the opinion are treated of in Zeller 175, _N.D._ II. 91--127. They supply in Sext. _P.H._ I. 32, III. 9--12 an example of the refutation of νοουμενα by means of νοουμενα. _Tam multa ac_: MSS. om. _ac_, which I insert. Lactantius qu. the passage without _perniciosa_. _Myrmecides_: an actual Athenian artist, famed for minute work in ivory, and especially for a chariot which a fly covered with its wings, and a ship which the wings of a bee concealed. See Plin. _Nat. Hist._ VII. 21, XXXVI. 5.