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 1     Int,       I|           schoolfellow, T. Pomponius Atticus, received more lasting impressions
 2     Int,       I|           period of their lives that Atticus and his friend became acquainted
 3     Int,       I|            at Athens, and along with Atticus who loved him beyond all
 4     Int,       I|           book of those addressed to Atticus, which range over the years
 5     Int,       I|          time we find him entreating Atticus to let him have a library
 6     Int,       I|            and Cicero thus writes to Atticus: "If you love me and feel
 7     Int,       I|         Varro. One of his letters to Atticus38 will give a fair picture
 8     Int,       I|           sit in a garden seat which Atticus had, beneath a bust of Aristotle,
 9     Int,       I|               an Epicurean friend of Atticus, who was then with Patro
10     Int,       I|            city, and anxiously asked Atticus whether it would look foolish
11     Int,       I|       carefully discusses the errors Atticus had pointed out in the books
12     Int,       I|              them Xeno the friend of Atticus58.~On Cicero's return to
13     Int,      IV|           repelled the entreaties of Atticus that he would return to
14     Int,      IV|             in a letter of Cicero to Atticus, which seems to belong to
15     Int,      IV|            was his wont to depend on Atticus very much for historical
16     Int,      IV|            mention in his letters to Atticus of the Academica142. He
17     Int,      IV|           the same place he wrote to Atticus of his intention to proceed
18     Int,      IV|              Cicero [xxxiv] wrote to Atticus that he had finished while
19     Int,      IV|            clear from the letters to Atticus that the De Finibus was
20     Int,      IV|          been placed in the hands of Atticus. The De Finibus was indeed
21     Int,      IV|           June, B.C. 45, Cicero sent Atticus the Torquatus, as he calls
22     Int,      IV|              which was then affixed. Atticus, who visited Cicero at Tusculum,
23     Int,      IV|            and in his own letters to Atticus admitted, to be false. I
24     Int,      IV|             receipt of a letter from Atticus, strongly urging that the
25     Int,      IV|           chiefly maintained through Atticus, who was at all times anxious
26     Int,      IV|             to the later entreaty of Atticus, Cicero declared himself
27     Int,      IV|            thought the suggestion of Atticus a "godsend174." Since the
28     Int,      IV|     interlocutors himself, Varro and Atticus178. The position occupied
29     Int,      IV|             The position occupied by Atticus in the dialogue was quite
30     Int,      IV|            parts179. A suggestion of Atticus that Cotta should also be
31     Int,      IV| responsibility for the decision upon Atticus, but for whose importunities
32     Int,      IV|              every letter written to Atticus during the progress of the
33     Int,      IV|             for these solicitations, Atticus naturally grew impatient,
34     Int,      IV|            Before these explanations Atticus [xl] had concluded that
35     Int,      IV|           receive the dedication184. Atticus would seem to have repeatedly
36     Int,      IV|             to stimulate his friend, Atticus affirmed that Varro was
37     Int,      IV|             De Finibus, but employed Atticus to ascertain his feeling
38     Int,      IV|            the book had been sent to Atticus at Rome, Cicero was still
39     Int,      IV|              Varro. He wrote thus to Atticus: "I tell you again and again
40     Int,      IV|            now hither, now thither!" Atticus on his part "shuddered"
41     Int,      IV|             intention [xlii] to meet Atticus at Rome and send the work
42     Int,      IV|        Cicero left the four books in Atticus' power, promising to approve
43     Int,      IV|              that might be taken196. Atticus wrote to say that as soon
44     Int,      IV|         letter, in which Cicero begs Atticus to ask Varro to make some
45     Int,      IV|              edition. If he consoles Atticus for the uselessness of his
46     Int,      IV|        Cicero of course assumes that Atticus, whatever may be the feeling
47     Int,      IV|          certain from the letters to Atticus that the work was written
48     Int,      IV|             from Cicero's letters to Atticus. That it was not unnecessary
49     Int,      IV|       acknowledged in his letters to Atticus that Lucullus was no philosopher.
50     Int,      IV|         shown that Varro, Cicero and Atticus could not have met together
51     Int,      IV|             the exile. In writing to Atticus Cicero had eulogised Varro;
52     Int,      IV|             to which I refer he begs Atticus to send Varro the eulogy
53     Int,      IV|              Varro in the letters to Atticus are in the same strain.
54     Int,      IV|         Varro's zeal, as reported by Atticus299. On Cicero's return from
55     Int,      IV|             as we have already seen, Atticus in vain urged his friend
56     Int,      IV|             The negotiations between Atticus and Cicero with respect
57     Int,      IV|  substantially the same as in ed. 1. Atticus must have been almost a
58       I,       I|            In Cumano nuper cum mecum Atticus noster esset, nuntiatum
59       I,       I|              ecquid forte Roma novi, Atticus: Omitte ista, quae nec percontari
60       I,       V|         quisquis Minervam docet. Tum Atticus: Tu vero, inquit, perge,
61       I,     VII|            VII. 25. Nos vero, inquit Atticus: quin etiam Graecis licebit
62     Not,       1|             Summary. Cic., Varro and Atticus meet at Cumae (1). Cic.,
63     Not,       1|              much more the friend of Atticus than of Cic., see Introd.
64     Not,       1|        editors have understood this. Atticus affects everything Athenian,
65     Not,       1|    Auctoritas: "system". Inquit: sc. Atticus of course. Goer., on account
66     Not,       1|           writes inquam. Why change? Atticus answers as in 14, 25, 33.
67     Not,       2|            see the amusing letter to Atticus XIII. 21, in which Cic.
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