The Academic Questions

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 as Aratus says - and those mariners steer in a more direct course because they keep looking at the constellation,

 but looking rather towards Helice, and the bright north star, that is to say, to these reasons of a more expansive kind, not polished away to a point

 Does she here seem to place less trust in what she has seen than people do when awake?

 does he not twice cry out that he is seeing what he never sees at all? Again, when Hercules, in Euripides, shot his own sons with his arrows, taking t

 Listen, how he implores the good faith of the virgin:-

 Have you any doubt here that he appears to himself to see these things? And then the rest of his speech:-

 How could he have believed these things any more if they had really existed than he did when they only seemed to exist? For it is clear that at the mo

The Academic Questions

Marcus Tullius Cicero

translated by Charles Duke Yonge