Academica.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - In very good condition. - Bilingual: Original Latin with lots of explanations in English. - 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 subject-matter 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.

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