This holiday lasted six days: it was not held at any fixed time; but the consul was never allowed to take the field till he had held them .-- _Vide_ Smith, Dict.Gr.and Rom.
Ant., p.

414.
[80] _Exhedra_, the word used by Cicero, means a study, or place where disputes were held.
[81] M.Piso was a Peripatetic.

The four great sects were the Stoics, the Peripatetics, the Academics, and the Epicureans.
[82] It was a prevailing tenet of the Academics that there is no certain knowledge.
[83] The five forms of Plato are these: [Greek: ousia, tauton, heteron, stasis, kinesis.] [84] The four natures here to be understood are the four elements--fire, water, air, and earth; which are mentioned as the four principles of Empedocles by Diogenes Laertius.
[85] These five moving stars are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Venus.

Their revolutions are considered in the next book.
[86] Or, Generation of the Gods.
[87] The [Greek: prolepsis] of Epicurus, before mentioned, is what he here means.
[88] [Greek: Steremnia] is the word which Epicurus used to distinguish between those objects which are perceptible to sense, and those which are imperceptible; as the essence of the Divine Being, and the various operations of the divine power.
[89] Zeno here mentioned is not the same that Cotta spoke of before.
This was the founder of the Stoics.

The other was an Epicurean philosopher whom he had heard at Athens.
[90] That is, there would be the same uncertainty in heaven as is among the Academics.
[91] Those nations which were neither Greek nor Roman.
[92] _Sigilla numerantes_ is the common reading; but P.Manucius proposes _venerantes_, which I choose as the better of the two, and in which sense I have translated it.
[93] Fundamental doctrines.
[94] That is, the zodiac.
[95] The moon, as well as the sun, is indeed in the zodiac, but she does not measure the same course in a month.