show that interrogatiuncula and conclusiuncula are almost convertible terms.  See also M.D.F. I. 39. Nec dicendi nec disserendi:  Cic.’s constant mode of denoting the Greek [Greek:  rhetorike] and [Greek:  dialektike]; note on 32. Et oratorum etiam:  Man., Lamb. om. etiam, needlessly.  In Ad Fam. IX. 25, 3, the two words even occur without any other word to separate them.  For oratorum Pearce conj. rhetorum. Rhetor, however is not thus used in Cic.’s phil. works. Utramque vim virtutem:  strange that Baiter (esp. after Halm’s note) should take Manutius’ far-fetched conj. unam for virtutem.  Any power or faculty (vis, [Greek:  dynamis]) may be called in Gk. [Greek:  arete], in Lat virtus.  Two passages, D.F. III. 72, De Or. III. 65, will remove all suspicion from the text. Verbis quoque novis:  MSS. have quanquam which however is impossible in such a place in Cic. (cf. M.D.F. V. 68). Ne a nobis quidem:  so all the MSS., but Orelli (after Ernesti) thinking the phrase “arrogantius dictum” places quidem after accipient.  The text is quite right, ne quidem, as Halm remarks, implies no more than the Germ. auch nicht, cf. also Gk. [Greek:  oude]. Suscipiatur labor:  MSS. om. the noun, but it is added by a later hand in G.

Sec.6. Epicurum, id est si Democritum:  for the charge see D.F. I. 17, IV. 13, N.D. I. 73. Id est often introduces in Cic. a clause which intensifies and does not merely explain the first clause, exx. in M.D.F. I. 33. Cum causas rerum efficientium sustuleris:  cf. D.F. I. 18, the same charge is brought by Aristotle against the Atomists, Met. A, 2.  Many editors from Lamb. to Halm and Baiter read efficientis, which would then govern rerum (cf. D.F. V. 81, De Fato, 33, also Gk. [Greek:  poietikos]).  But the genitive is merely one of definition, the causae are the res efficientes, for which cf. 24 and Topica, 58, proximus locus est rerum efficientium, quae causae appellantur.  So Faber, though less fully. Appellat:  i.e.  Amafinius, who first so translated [Greek:  atomos]. Quae cum contineantur:  this reading has far the best MSS. authority, it must be kept, and adhibenda etiam begins the apodosis.  Madvig (Emendationes ad Ciceronis Libros Philosophicos, Hauniae, 1825, p. 108) tacitly reads continentur without cum, so Orelli and Klotz.  Goer. absurdly tries to prop up the subj. without cum. Quam quibusnam:  Durand’s em. for quoniam quibusnam of the MSS., given by Halm and also Baiter.  Madv. (Em. p. 108) made a forced defence of quoniam, as marking a rapid transition from one subject to another (here from physics to ethics) like the Gk. [Greek:  epei], only one