PREFACE. IN 1874 I published a small edition of the Academica, which is now out of print. The present volume is, however, not a revision of the earlier, but a new work, written on a larger scale from a fresh and extended study of the text, language, and subjectmatter of the treatise. While I have tried in the first place to bring my own reading of the ancient authors to bear on the elucidation of Cicero's work, I have not neglected such modern aids to its study as it seemed of importance to consult. It is to be regretted that these modern aids are comparatively few, and the fact will I trust excuse some of the imperfections in my work. Important and interesting as the Academica is, it has received far less than its fair share of attention from scholars. My volume of 1874 was the first English explanatory edition of the dialogue since the time of Davies (1725), while abroad there has been none since that of Goerenz in 1810. Special articles or pamphlets relating to the Academica have been exceedingly rare, even in Germany; of such I have consulted all to which I could get access. On the other hand I have made no attempt at an exhaustive examination of the numerous histories of philosophy, or fragments of histories, which deal with the doctrines discussed in this treatise. Such works are very often not written from a competent examination at first hand of the ancient sources. Of those that have been so written, the work of Zeller far transcends the rest in importance for such studies as those with which I have been here concerned. Some illustrative matter which I had intended to include in the notes has been abandoned from want of space. In particular I hoped to indicate throughout the work the relation in which the doctrines discussed in the Academica stand to similar doctrines put forward in modern times. I trust that it may be possible for me to deal with this subject in a separate publication at some future time. The scantiness of my leisure has prevented me from passing the work rapidly through the press; hence some irregularities and changes of plan have crept in for which I owe an apology to the reader. Some of these are mentioned in the "Addenda and Corrigenda." The index has been prepared with special care, and I hope it will render the book useful in some degree as a work of reference. The plan of writing the critical notes in Latin is so obviously convenient and has been so extensively adopted that it needs no apology. GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 10th December, 1884. JAMES S. REID. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. P. 9, n. 6. For N. D. § 6 read N. D. 1 § 6. 16, n. 2, l. 1. Dele nunc. 30. The number 10, referring to n. 10 should be placed at the end of the preceding sentence. 37, n. 9. For Acad. Post. the Lincoln Coll, Ms gives the title M. T. Ciceronis quoddam de Academicis fragmentum ; for Acad. Pr. no title. 52. Add Hirzel, Untersuchungen zu Cicero's philosophischen Schriften III (Leipzig 1883). I greatly regret that this elaborate and important work did not reach me till more than half of my book was in type. The third volume deals (besides other matters) with the history of Scepticism and the sources of the Acad. Priora. With the main doctrine of the latter part, viz. that Cic. in the concluding portion of the Lucullus drew from a work by Philo, I cannot agree. I still hold that Cic. adapted to the needs of his dialogue a work or works by Clitomachus. The adaptations needed were slight. Some remarks on H.'s arguments will be found below and in my nn. on the latter part of the Lucullus. 55. The phrase 'irresistible impression' is not accurate as a rendering of karaληπτικὴ φαντασία: see n. on I, 41. 57, n. I. Add the pamphlet by Hoyer, De Antiocho Ascalonita, Bonn 1883. n. 7. Read 'Zeller's supposition...expand, is wholly erroneous.' I found the readings of the Lincoln MS given in the Oxford ed. so unsatisfactory for the Acad. Post. that I intended not to record them for the Acad. Pr. When my book was about half printed I was enabled (by the courtesy of the College authorities) to examine the MS, and from 2 § 60 onwards I quote it from my own collation. I can only mention here a few of its readings in Ac. Post. and the earlier part of Ac. Pr. 181 I audissemus-eisdem. § 2 que iam pridem, changed (m. 2) to quo iam pr. § 5 possum scribere. § 9 a poetis...inchoasti. § 10 malent; the words et qui Graeca poterunt are not omitted. § 13 correpta. § 17 Stageritem. § 20 inchoatum est neque credo desit absolutum (sic). § 21 ad augendum-prima in natura (not in pr. n.). § 27 effecta. § 28 cohercente. § 29 sit inter. § 32 numquam -diffinitiones. § 34 discedit-eisque-utebantur. § 37 praua. § 41 comprehendibile (not comprehensibile). § 43 at ab Antiocho -nunc desciscis-discidium. At the end is written 'Haud amplius comperitur. Non plus reperitur, tanta fuit negligentia atque inscitia eorum qui iam nos multis seculis anteierunt. Qui sue inertie et ignorantie utinam praemia digna ferant.' II § urbanus admodum. § 2 in Asiae pace-percuntando-se male discere. § 5 reliqui qui. § 6 populares illustrisque. § 7 qui scire sibi uidentur dicere-dicendo et audiendo. § 8 praescripta et quasi imperata. § 12 duos. § 13 duos-suspicamur -nihil quidem. § 14 similes. § 16 in hoc quam. § 17 faciundum-nec uerum-censuerant. § 18 disserant. aut-modo autem. § 27 sapientisque satis sit. tuari. § 29 abhorret. § 30 primum. § 33 se ei non. conuincti ac iudicio-uidemus (for dicemus; was iudicemus in the archetype? Cf. § 98 iudicem). § 38 omnino loqui. § 22 eae-una § 28 ut id-fluc intersit posse. 834 § 40 § 47 in § 52 p. 68. As to the Munich MS I have been able to learn nothing, though I have made inquiries of the authorities there. Last line but one on the page. For 'Baiter (B)' read 'Baiter (B in the cr. nn. to book 1, Bait. in those to book II).' pp. 85 sq. In the headings of the pages for ACADEMICORUM POSTERIORUM read ACADEMICORVM POSTERIORVM and similarly ACA DEMICORVM PRIORVM. 1 § 6, n. on appellat. For corpuscula cf. fragm. 10 and for atomus 2 § 125. § 17, n. on quasi heredem. In the fifth line, for '32 (bis)' read ‘32, 33'. § 18, n. on exhibiturum. In the last line but one, for 'Fin. 5, 31' read 'Em. III.' § 23. The number 23 should be opposite 1. 5 of the text, not 1. 6. § 26, n. on earum rerum. In the second line, for 'paraphrases' read 'periphrases'. § 28, n. on ultro citroque. In the last line but one, after the word 'expression' insert as the equivalent of ultro citroque'. § 29, n. on. necessitatem. In the second and third lines of the second column, for ἀνάγκην read ἀνάγκη and for ειμαρμένην read ειμαρμένη. § 35 omnia quae. Possibly we should read om. quaecumque. § 36, n. on neutra. In the fourth line, for περιτὰς read περιττάς. § 39 sensus et mentem. Cf. Macrob. somn. 1, 14, 20 Critolaus Peripateticus constare eam (animam, wh. Macr. treats as=animum) de quinta essentia. $41, p. 152. In cr. nn., last line, for qualia read quale. Fragm. 31, at end. For 135 read 137 (also in note). II § 16. The number 16 should come opposite 1. 21 of the text, not 1. 16. |