§96. _Si dicis_: etc. the words in italics are needed, and were given by Manut. with the exception of _nunc_ which was added by Dav. The idea of Orelli, that Cic. clipped these trite sophisms as he does verses from the comic writers is untenable. _In docendo_: _docere_ is not to _expound_ but to _prove_, cf. n. on 121. _Primum ... modum_: the word _modus_ is technical in this sense cf. _Top._ 57. The προτος λογος αναποδεικτος of the Stoic logic ran thus ει ‛ημερα εστι, φως εστιν ... αλλα μην ‛ημερα εστιν φως αρα εστιν (Sext. _P.H._ II. 157, and other passages qu. Zeller 114). This bears a semblance of inference and is not so utterly tautological as Cic.'s translation, which merges φως and ‛ημερα into one word, or that of Zeller (114, note). These arguments are called μονολημματοι (involving only one premise) in Sext. _P.H._ I. 152, 159, II. 167. _Si dicis te mentiri_, etc.: it is absurd to assume, as this sophism does, that when a man _truly_ states that he _has_ told a lie, he establishes against himself not merely that he _has_ told a lie, but also that he _is_ telling a lie at the moment when he makes the _true_ statement. The root of the sophism lies in the confusion of past and present time in the one infinitive _mentiri_. _Eiusdem generis_: the phrase _te mentiri_ had been substituted for _nunc lucere_. _Chrysippea_: n. on 93. _Conclusioni_: on _facere_ with the dat. see n. on 27. _Cederet_: some edd. _crederet_, but the word is a trans. of Gk. εικειν; n. on 66. _Conexi_: = συνημμενον, cf. Zeller 109. This was the proper term for the hypothetical judgment. _Superius_: the συνημμενον consists of two parts, the hypothetical part and the affirmative--called in Greek ‛ηγουμενον and ληγον; if one is admitted the other follows of course.