e.... In the mean time I have been preparing myself as he
desired to make him a return.

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"I may as well, therefore, remove from my Academical Disputations
the present speakers, who are distinguished characters indeed, but
by no means philosophical, and who discourse with too much subtlety,
and substitute Varro in their place. For these are the opinions of
Antiochus, to which he is much attached. I can find a place for
Catulus and Lucullus elsewhere."--Ep. 12.

"The Catulus and Lucullus I imagine you have had before; but I have
made new introductions to these books which I wish you to have,
containing an eulogium upon each of these persons, and there are
some other additions."--Ep. 32.

"In consequence of the letter which you wrote to me about Varro, I
have taken the Academy entirely out of the hands of those
distinguished persons, and transferred it to our friend. And from
two books I have made it into four. These are longer than the others
were, though there are several parts left out.... In truth, if my
self-love does not deceive me, these books have come out in such a
manner that there is nothing of the same kind like them even in
Greek."--Ep. 13.

"I have transferred the whole of that Academical Treatise to Varro.
It had at first been divided among Catulus, Lucullus, and
Hortensius. Afterwards, as this app