§95. _Tollit ... superiora_: cf. _Hortensius_ fragm. 19 (Orelli) _sed ad extremum pollicetur prolaturum qui se ipse comest quod efficit dialecticorum ratio_. _Vestra an nostra_: Bait. after Christ needlessly writes _nostra an vestra_. αξιωμα: "a judgment expressed in language"; cf. Zeller 107, who gives the Stoic refinements on this subject. _Effatum_: Halm gives the spelling _ecfatum_. It is probable that this spelling was antique in Cic.'s time and only used in connection with religious and legal formulae as in _De Div._ I. 81, _De Leg._ II. 20, see Corss. _Ausspr._ I. 155 For the word cf. Sen. _Ep._ 117 _enuntiativum quiddam de corpore quod alii effatum vocant, alii enuntiatum, alii edictum_, in _T.D._ I. 14 _pronuntiatum_ is found, in _De Fato_ 26 _pronuntiatio_, in Gellius XVI. 8 (from Varro) _prologium_. _Aut verum esse aut falsum_: the constant Stoic definition of αξιωμα, see Diog. VII. 65 and other passages in Zeller 107. _Mentiris an verum dicis_: the _an_ was added by Schutz on a comparison of Gellius XVIII. 10 _cum mentior et mentiri me dico, mentior an verum dico?_ The sophism is given in a more formally complete shape in _De Div._ II. 11 where the following words are added, _dicis autem te mentiri verumque dicis, mentiris igitur_. The fallacy is thus hit by Petrus Valentia (p. 301, ed Orelli), _quis unquam dixit "ego mentior" quum hoc ipsum pronuntiatum falsum vellet declarare?_ _Inexplicabilia_: απορα in the Greek writers. _Odiosius_: this adj. has not the strong meaning of the Eng. "hateful," but simply means "tiresome," "annoying." _Non comprehensa_: as in 99, the opposite of _comprehendibilia_ III. 1, 41. The past partic. in Cic. often has the same meaning as an adj. in _-bilis_. Faber points out that in the _Timaeus_ Cic. translates αλυτος by _indissolutus_ and _indissolubilis_ indifferently. _Imperceptus_, which one would expect, is found in Ovid.