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 1 [Title]              |                                  ACADEMICA~ ~
 2     Ded              |       WHO HAVE READ WITH HIM~THE ACADEMICA,~THIS EDITION~IS AFFECTIONATELY
 3     Pre              |   English scholar has edited the Academica. In Germany the last edition
 4     Pre              |       four years I have read the Academica with a large number of intelligent
 5     Pre              |          literary history of the Academica as could not be readily
 6     Pre              |        the subject-matter of the Academica, than all the professed
 7     Pre              |    touched upon somewhere in the Academica, it is evidently impossible
 8     Pre              |    special way bound up with the Academica. The two books chiefly referred
 9     Pre              |  information illustrative of the Academica, which was before difficult
10    Abbr              |             Cicero; Ac., Acad. = Academica; Ac., Acad. Post. = Academica
11    Abbr              |    Academica; Ac., Acad. Post. = Academica Posteriora; D.F. = De Finibus;
12     Int              |                              THE ACADEMICA OF CICERO.~[i] ~INTRODUCTION.~
13     Int,       I     |          Antiochus, since in the Academica28 he is mentioned in such
14     Int,       I     |        in the following year the Academica, the history of which I
15     Int,       I     |      preceded the writing of the Academica. Even the evidence I have
16     Int,       I     |         extensive. So far as the Academica is concerned, I have had
17     Int,       I     |        themselves in reading the Academica. ~
18     Int,      II     |          several passages of the Academica70. As my space forbids me
19     Int,      II     |       standard71. We have in the Academica Cicero's view of the first
20     Int,      II     |          in the beginning of the Academica Posteriora95, which has
21     Int,      II     |         and published before the Academica, wherever he had touched
22     Int,      II     |       that when Cicero wrote the Academica he was charged with constituting
23     Int,     III     |         mentioned in [xxvii] the Academica113, was the first to write,
24     Int,     III     |      works which we possess, the Academica and the De Finibus, required
25     Int,     III     |         view, which preceded the Academica, were the De Consolatione,
26     Int,      IV     |               IV. History of the Academica.~On the death of Tullia,
27     Int,      IV     |       such surroundings that the Academica was written. The first trace
28     Int,      IV     |         be needed in writing the Academica. The words with which he
29     Int,      IV     |       some new work to which our Academica would correspond139. He
30     Int,      IV     | reference to the progress of the Academica that in a later letter he
31     Int,      IV     |        letters to Atticus of the Academica142. He declares that however
32     Int,      IV     |         the first edition of the Academica, along with the De Finibus,
33     Int,      IV     |         the first edition of the Academica had been placed in the hands
34     Int,      IV     |       Cicero began to revise the Academica151. The final arrangement
35     Int,      IV     |         direct evidence that the Academica was published before the
36     Int,      IV     |          Lucullus, of the Priora Academica. In my opinion [xxxv] the
37     Int,      IV     |      Philosophia) and the Priora Academica are the compositions in
38     Int,      IV     |         and published before the Academica. This would be clear from
39     Int,      IV     |          from the mention in the Academica Posteriora alone159, but
40     Int,      IV     |           the Hortensius and the Academica are mentioned together in
41     Int,      IV     |      that the Hortensius and the Academica must have been more closely
42     Int,      IV     |    Cicero, excepting perhaps the Academica and the De Finibus. The
43     Int,      IV     |       exactly the same as in the Academica Priora, for the introduction
44     Int,      IV     |            The discussion in the Academica Priora is carried on at
45     Int,      IV     |         the first edition of the Academica to Rome165. We have a mention
46     Int,      IV     |  interest in connection with the Academica, the fact that among the
47     Int,      IV     |         of interlocutors for the Academica, for the first thing he
48     Int,      IV     |          to Varro, or if not the Academica, the De Finibus170. Cicero
49     Int,      IV     |        full two years before the Academica was [xxxviii] written, to
50     Int,      IV     |         to transfer to Varro the Academica, allowing that Catulus and
51     Int,      IV     |         the first edition of the Academica to maintain176. For them
52     Int,      IV     |         remark was made that the Academica would just suit Varro, who
53     Int,      IV     |         in editing once more his Academica, which he now divided into
54     Int,      IV     |  completed second edition of the Academica is often given in the letters.
55     Int,      IV(187)|        the second edition of the Academica in a single day. Cf. XIII.
56     Int,      IV     |   alterations in his copy of the Academica, at a time when the fate
57     Int,      IV     |    written immediately after the Academica Posteriora was completed200,
58     Int,      IV     |       the work to bear the title Academica is clear202. The expressions
59     Int,      IV     |        clear202. The expressions Academica quaestio, Ακαδημικη συνταξις,
60     Int,      IV     |      Lactantius, under the title Academica. Augustine speaks of them
61     Int,      IV     |   generally speaks of [xliv] the Academica. Plutarch shows only a knowledge
62     Int,      IV     |         the first edition of the Academica from circulation, he affixed
63     Int,      IV     |     culture, it is only from the Academica that we learn definitely
64     Int,      IV     |          in the beginning of the Academica Posteriora. One main reason
65     Int,      IV     |        the first edition. In the Academica Posteriora it was necessary
66     Int,      IV     |        which is preserved in the Academica Posteriora262. He justified
67     Int,      IV     |         intermediate form of the Academica, where Cato and Brutus appeared
68     Int,      IV     |    assigned to Hortensius in the Academica Priora. He would naturally
69     Int,      IV     |        enough connected with the Academica to render it necessary to
70     Int,      IV     |     after the publication of the Academica and De Finibus, is clearly
71     Int,      IV     |         intermediate form of the Academica, the speech of Lucullus
72     Int,      IV     |        When Cicero dedicated the Academica to Varro, very slight alterations
73     Int,      IV     |     death and the writing of the Academica, it can be shown that Varro,
74     Int,      IV     |    mostly in the year before the Academica was published, testify to
75     Int,      IV     |       Augustine. My notes on the Academica Posteriora will show that
76     Int,      IV     |         him had done) places the Academica Priora before the Posteriora.
77     Not,       1     |        German translation of the Academica, also quotes Plutarch Præc.
78     Not,       1     |      special difficulties of the Academica.~§36. Cetera: Stoic αδιαφορα,
79     Not,       2     |        Augustine quotes from the Academica Posteriora (see fragm. 36).~
80     Not,       2     |          Lucullus' speech in the Academica Priora The drift of this
81     Not,       2     |          that of Lucullus in the Academica Priora that I think the
82     Not,       2     |        the second edition of the Academica of Cic. No writings of the
83     Not,       2     |     opinions of Augustine as the Academica and the lost Hortensius.
84     Not,       2     |         his separate text of the Academica 1827) that Cic. commonly
85     Not,       2     |          and when Cic. wrote the Academica the New Academic dialectic
86     Not,       2     |     Antiochean opinions, see the Academica Posteriora 17, 43. De se
87     Not,       2     |        on fragm. 2 and 35 of the Academica Posteriora. Immutatione
88     Not,       2     |          Orelli's reprint of his Academica) that Cic. omits to represent
89     Not,       2     |           2) is evident from the Academica and from Sextus as quoted
90     Not,       2     |    Valentia in his book entitled Academica (pp. 313316 of the reprint
91     Not,       2     |          any one should read the Academica up to this point, and still
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