[83] The five forms of Plato are these: οὐσία, ταὐτὸν, ἕτερον, στάσις, κίνησις.
[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 πρόληψις of Epicurus, before mentioned, is what he here means.
[88] Στερέμνια 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.