§148. _Ad patris revolvor sententiam_: for this see Introd. 50, and for the expression 18. _Opinaturum_: see 59, 67, 78, 112. _Intellegat se_: MSS. _intellegentes_, cf. n. on 132. _Qua re_: so Manut. for _per_ of MSS. Εποχην _illam omnium rerum_: an odd expression; cf. _actio rerum_ in 62. _Non probans_: so Madv. _Em._ 204 for MSS. _comprobans_. Dav. conj. _improbans_ and is followed by Bait. I am not sure that the MSS. reading is wrong. The difficulty is essentially the same as that involved in 104, which should be closely compared. A contrast is drawn between a theoretical dogma and a practical belief. The dogma is that _assent_ (meaning absolute assent) is not to be given to phenomena. This dogma Catulus might well describe himself as formally approving (_comprobans_). The _practice_ is to give assent (meaning modified assent). There is the same contrast in 104 between _placere_ and _tenere_. I may note that the word _alteri_ (cf. _altero_ in 104) need not imply that the dogma and the practice are irreconcilable; a misconception on this point has considerably confirmed edd. in their introduction of the negative. _Nec eam admodum_: cf. _non repugnarem_ in 112. _Tollendum_: many edd. have gone far astray in interpreting this passage. The word is used with a double reference to _adsensus_ and _ancora_; in the first way we have had _tollere_ used a score of times in this book; with regard to the second meaning, cf. Caes. _Bell. Gall._ IV. 23, _Bell. Civ._ I. 31, where _tollere_ is used of weighing anchor, and Varro _De Re Rust._ III. 17, 1, where it occurs in the sense "to get on," "to proceed," without any reference to the sea. (The exx. are from Forc.) This passage I believe and this alone is referred to in _Ad Att._ XIII. 21, 3. If my conjecture is correct, Cic. tried at first to manage a joke by using the word _inhibendum_, which had also a nautical signification, but finding that he had mistaken the meaning of the word, substituted _tollendum_. [1] _De Leg._ II. §3. [2] Cf. _De Or._ II. §1 with II. §5. [3] _Ad Fam._ XIII. 1, Phaedrus nobis,... cum pueri essemus, valde ut philosophus probabatur. [4] _N.D._ I. §93, Phaedro nihil elegantius, nihil humanius. [5] _Ad Fam._ XIII. 1. [6] _Brutus_, §309. [7] _Ad Att._ II. 20, §6. [8] _Ad Fam._ XIII. 16. _T.D._ V. §113. _Acad._ II. §115. [9] _Brutus_, §306. [10] _Ibid._ [11] _Rep._ I. §7. _T.D._ V. §5. _De Off._ II. §§3,4. _De Fato_, §2. [12] Cf. _Brutus_, §§312, 322. [13] Cf. _Brutus_, §§312, 314, 316. [14] _Brutus_, §315. [15] _N.D._ I. §59. [16] VII. I. §35. [17] Cf. _N.D._ I. §93 with _Ad Fam._ XIII. 1, §1. [18] _Ac._ I. §46. [19] _D.F._ V. §3. [20] _D.F._ I. §16. [21] _D.F._ V. §6, etc. [22] _D.F._ V. §8. [23] _Ac._ II. §4. [24] _Ib._ §69. [25] _Ad Att._ XIII. 19, §5. [26] _Ac._ II. §113. [27] _Ac._ II. §113. _De Leg._ I. §54. [28] II. §12. [29] _Brutus_, §316. [30] _Hortensius_, fragm. 18, ed. Nobbe. [31] _T.D._ II. §61. [32] _De Div._ I. §130.