§14. _Similiter_: it is noticeable that five MSS. of Halm have _simile_. _Xenophanem_: so Victorius for the MSS. _Xenoplatonem_. _Ed. Rom._ (1471) has _Cenonem_, which would point to _Zenonem_, but Cic. does not often name Zeno of Elea. _Saturninus_: of the question why he was an enemy of Lucullus, Goer. says _frustra quaeritur_. Saturninus was the persistent enemy of Metellus Numidicus, who was the uncle of Lucullus by marriage. _Arcesilae calumnia_: this was a common charge, cf. _Academicorum calumnia_ in _N.D._ II. 20 and _calumnia_ in 18 and 65 of this book. So August. _Contra Acad._ II. 1 speaks of _Academicorum vel calumnia vel pertinacia vel pericacia_. _Democriti verecundia_: Cic. always has a kind of tenderness for Democritus, as Madv. on _D.F._ I. 20 remarks, cf. _De Div._ II. 30 where Democr. is made an exception to the general _arrogantia_ of the _physici_. _Empedocles quidem ... videatur_: cf. 74. The exordium of his poem is meant, though there is nothing in it so strong as the words of the text, see R. and P. 108. _Quale sit_: the emphasis is on _sit_, the sceptic regards only phenomenal, not essential existence. _Quasi modo nascentes_: Ciacconus thought this spurious, cf. however _T.D._ II. 5 _ut oratorum laus ... senescat ... , philosophia nascatur_.
§15. _haesitaverunt_: Goer. cf. _De Or._ I. 40. _Constitutam_: so in 14. _Delitisceret_: this is the right spelling, not _delitesceret_, which one good MS. has here, see Corssen II. 285. _Negavissent_: "had denied, as they said." _Tollendus est_: a statement which is criticised in 74. _Nominibus differentis ... dissenserunt_: genuine Antiochean opinions, see the _Academica Posteriora_ 17, 43. _De se ipse_: very frequent in Cic. (cf. Madv. _Gram._ 487 _b_). _Diceret_: this is omitted by the MSS., but one has _agnosceret_ on the margin; see n. on 88. _Fannius_: in his "Annals." The same statement is quoted in _De Or._ II. 270, _Brutus_ 299. Brutus had written an epitome of this work of Fannius (_Ad Att._ XII. 5, 3).