Or, “that which is fixed and invariable.” There seems to be a reference to the derivation of *** (truth) from ***, firmus (stabilis) fuit. Cureton has strangely mistranslated ***, by “that which, without having been brought into existence, does exist.” The first *** is nothing but the sign of emphatic denial which is frequently appended to ***, and is the infinitive of emphasis belonging to the second .