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 1     Pre         |    build. His edition of the De Finibus contains more valuable material
 2     Pre         |         books, with Madvig's De Finibus, all teachers ought to place
 3    Abbr         | Academica Posteriora; D.F. = De Finibus; T.D. = Tusculan Disputations;
 4    Abbr         |      Madvig's edition of the De Finibus; Opusc. = Opuscula; Em. =
 5     Int,       I|       the Hortensius and the De Finibus had probably both been planned
 6     Int,      II|       the fourth book of the De Finibus, and when the discrepancy
 7     Int,      II|         inconsistent. In the De Finibus he argued that the difference
 8     Int,     III|        the Academica and the De Finibus, required the composition
 9     Int,      IV|    Academica, along with the De Finibus, is intended. Against this
10     Int,      IV|  letters to Atticus that the De Finibus was being worked out book
11     Int,      IV|        hands of Atticus. The De Finibus was indeed begun at Astura150,
12     Int,      IV|        the characters in the De Finibus is announced later still152;
13     Int,      IV|         published before the De Finibus. On all these grounds I
14     Int,      IV|       words of Cicero in the De Finibus160 place it beyond all doubt,
15     Int,      IV|         long time before the De Finibus, to have become known to
16     Int,      IV|        the Academica and the De Finibus. The interlocutors in the
17     Int,      IV|        the first book of the De Finibus164. He had already sent
18     Int,      IV|       not the Academica, the De Finibus170. Cicero had never been
19     Int,      IV|       godsend174." Since the De Finibus was already "betrothed"
20     Int,      IV|       speak to him about the De Finibus, but employed Atticus to
21     Int,      IV|         to get access to the De Finibus194. In a letter, dated apparently
22     Int,      IV|         the last but one the De Finibus, the De Natura Deorum and
23     Int,      IV|         of the Academica and De Finibus, is clearly to be seen285.~
24      II,   XLIII|     perspicuum est, omnibus iis finibus bonorum, quos exposui, malorum
25      II,     XLV|        quae defendi possint, de finibus bonorum: circumcidit et
26      II,     XLV|     Peripateticorum et Antiochi finibus non facile divellor, nec
27     Not,       2|    minime voltis: cf. I. 18. De finibus: not "concerning," but "
28     Not,       2|        MSS.~§139. Polemonis ... finibus: all these were composite
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