ccurred
either in the speech of Catulus or in that of Cicero. As no reason whatever
appears to account for its transference to Varro I prefer to regard it as
belonging to Cic.'s exposition of the positive side of Academic doctrine in
the second book. Cic. repeatedly insists that the Academic school must not
be supposed to have no truths to maintain, see _Luc._ 119, also 66 and
_N.D._ I. 12. Also Aug. _Contra. Ac._ II. 29.

36. It is difficult to see where this passage could have been included if
not in that prooemium to the third book which is mentioned _Ad. Att._ XVI.
6, 4. I may here add that Krische seems to me wrong in holding that the
whole four books formed one discussion, finished within the limits of a
single day. Why interrupt the discussion by the insertion of a prologue of
so general a nature as to be taken from a stock which Cic. kept on hand
ready made? (Cf. _Ad Att._ as above.)

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Besides the actual fragments of the second edition, many indications of its
contents are preserved in the work of Augustine entitled _Contra
Academicos_, which, though written in support of dogmatic opinions,
imitated throughout the second edition of the _Academica_ of Cic. No
writings of the Classical period had so great an influence on the culture
and opinions of Augustine as the _Academica_ and the lost _Hortensius_. I
give, partly from Krische, the scattered indications of the contents of the
former which are to be gathered from the bishop's works. In Aug. _Contr.
Ac._ II. 14, 15, we have what appears to be a summary of the lost part of
Book I. to the following effect. The New Academy must not be regarded as
having revolted against the Old, all that it did was to discuss that new
doctrine of [Greek: katalepsis] advanced by Zeno. The doctrine of [Greek:
akatalepsia] though present to the minds of the ancients had never taken
distinct shape, because it had met with no opposition. The Old Academy was
rather enriched than attacked by the New. Antiochus, in adopting Stoicism
under the name of the Old Academy, made it appear that there was a strife
between it and the New. With Antiochus the historical exposition of Cic.
must have ended. From this portion of the first book, Aug. derived his
opinion (_Contra. Ac._ II. 1) that New Academicism was excusable from the
necessities of the age in which it appeared. Indications of Book II. in
Aug. are scarce, but to it I refer _Contra. Ac._ I. 7 _plac