§7. _Sunt ... qui negent_: and truly, see Introd. p. 38. In _Cat. Mai._ §3 Cic. actually apologises for making Cato more learned than he really was. _Mortuis_: Catulus died in 60, Lucullus about 57, Hortensius 50. _Contra omnis dicere quae videntur_: MSS. mostly insert _qui_ between _dicere_ and _quae_, one of the best however has _dicere quae aliis_ as a correction, while another has the marginal reading _qui scire sibi videntur_. The omission of _qui_, which I conjectured, but now see occurs in a MS. (Pal. 2) referred to by Halm, gives admirable sense. _Verum invenire_: cf. 60. _Contentione_: = φιλονεικια as usual. _In ... rebus obscuritas_: cf. I. 44 _rerum obscuritate_. _Infirmitas_: cf. I. 44 _imbecillos animos_. _Antiquissimi et doctissimi_: on the other hand _recentissima quaeque sunt correcta et emendata maxime_ I. 13. _Diffisi_: one of the best MSS. has _diffissi_, which reminds one of the spelling _divisssiones_, asserted to be Ciceronian in Quint. _Inst. Or_. I. 7, 20. _In utramque partem_: επ' αμφοτερα, cf. I. 45. _Exprimant_: "embody," cf. n. on I. 19. §8. _Probabilia_: πιθανα, for which see 33. _Sequi_: "act upon," cf. 99-101. _Liberiores et solutiores_: these two words frequently occur together in Cic. and illustrate his love for petty variations; see 105, also _T.D._ V. 43, _De Div._ I. 4, _De Rep._ IV. 4, _N.D._ I. 56, _Orat._ 64. _Integra_: "untrammelled," cf. the phrase "_non mihi integrum est_"--"I have committed my self." _Et quasi_: MSS. have _et quibus et quasi_. _Cogimur_: for this Academic freedom see Introd. p. 18. _Amico cuidam_: Orelli after Lamb. _cuipiam;_ for the difference see Madv. _Gram._ 493 _b_, c.