In D.F. V. 21, which is taken direct from Antiochus, this appears, as also in Varro (in Aug. as above) who often spoke as though ethics were the whole of philosophy (cf. also De Off. III. 20).  Antiochus probably made light of such dialectical controversies between the two schools as that about [Greek:  ideai], which had long ceased.  Krische Uber Cicero’s Akademika p. 51, has some good remarks. Nominibus:  the same as vocabulis above.  Cic. does not observe Varro’s distinction (De L. L. IX. 1) which confines nomen to proper nouns, vocabulum to common nouns, though he would not use vocabulum as Tac. does, for the name of a person (Annals XII. 66, etc.). Quasi heredem ... duos autem:  the conj. of Ciaconus “ex asse heredem, secundos autem” is as acute as it is absurd. Duos:  it is difficult to decide whether this or duo is right in Cic., he can scarcely have been so inconsistent as the MSS. and edd. make him (cf.  Baiter and Halm’s ed., Ac. II. 11, 13 with De Div. I. 6).  The older inscr. in the Corpus vol.  I. have duo, but only in duoviros, two near the time of Cic. (C.I. vol.  I. nos. 571 and 1007) give duos, which Cic. probably wrote. Duo is in old Latin poets and Virgil. Chalcedonium:  not Calchedonium as Klotz, cf.  Gk. [Greek:  Chalkedonion]. Praestantissimos:  Halm wrongly, cf. Brut. 125. Stagiritem:  not Stagiritam as Lamb., for Cic., exc. in a few nouns like Persa, pirata, etc., which came down from antiquity, did not make Greek nouns in [Greek:  -es] into Latin nouns in _-a_.  See M.D.F. II. 94. Coetus ... soliti:  cf. 10. Platonis ubertate:  cf.  Quintilian’s “illa Livii lactea ubertas.” Plenum ac refertam:  n. on 11. Dubitationem:  Halm with one MS., G, gives dubitantem, Baiter dubitanter, Why alter? Ars quaedam philosophiae:  before these words all Halm’s MSS., exc G, insert disserendi, probably from the line above, Lipsius keeps it and ejects philosophiae, while Lamb., Day read philosophia in the nom.  Varro, however, would never say that philosophy became entirely dialectical in the hands of the old Academics and Peripatetics. Ars = [Greek:  techne], a set of definite rules, so Varro in Aug. (as above) speaks of the certa dogmata of this old school as opposed to the incertitude of the New Academy. Descriptio:  so Halm here, but often discriptio.  The Corp.  Inscr., vol.  I. nos. 198 and 200, has thrice discriptos or discriptum, the other spelling never.