tical. But Antiochus professed to revive
the doctrines of the old Academy, maintaining, in opposition to
Carneades and Philo, that the intellect had in itself a test by
which it could distinguish between what was real and what existed
only in the imagination. He himself appears to have held doctrines
very nearly coinciding with those of Aristotle; agreeing however so
far with the Stoics as to insist that all emotions ought to be
suppressed. So that Cicero almost inclines to class him among the
Stoics; though it appears that he considered himself as an Eclectic
philosopher, uniting the doctrines of the Stoics and Academics so as
to revive the old Academy.

2 Titus Pomponius Atticus was three years older than Cicero, with whom
he had been educated, and with whom he always continued on terms of
the greatest intimacy; his daughter was married to Agrippa. He was
of the Epicurean school in philosophy. He died B.C. 32.

3 Marcus Terentius Varro was ten years older than Cicero, and a man of
the most extensive and profound learning. He had held a naval
command against the pirates, and against Mithridates, and served as
lieutenant to Pompey in Spain, at the beginning of the civil war,
adhering to his party till after the battle of Pharsalia, when he
was pardoned, and taken into favour by Caesar. He was proscribed by
the second triumvirate, but escaped, and died B.C. 28. He was a very
voluminous author, and according to his own account composed four
hundred and ninety books; but only one, the three books De Re
Rustica, have come down to us, and a portion of a large treatise De
Lingua Latina.

In philosophy he had been a pupil of Antiochus, and attached himself
to the Academy with something of a leaning to the Stoics.

4 Amafanius was one of the earliest Roman writers of the Epicurean
school. He is mentioned by no one but Cicero.

5 We do not know who this Rabirius was.

6 Lucius AElius Praeconinus Stilo was a Roman knight, and one of the
earliest grammarians of Rome. Cicero in the Brutus describes him as
a very learned man in both Greek and Roman literature; and
especially in old Latin works. He had been a teacher of Varro in
grammar, and of Cicero himself in rhetoric. He received the name of
Stilo from his compositions; an