Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire And Aversion
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire And Aversion
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Aristo, his disciple, excelled 'in politeness and elegance, but wanted the main perfection, seriousnes and solidity of reasoning. He has wrote many volumes very neatly and handsomely ; it were to be wished his performances carried in them a greater sway and cogency. Many others I might • ~ BOOK THE JIFTH. . S49 mention, as particularly the learned and eloquent Hieronymus, though in regard indolence is his summum bonum, it is somewhat absurd to make a peripatetic of him ; for a different summum ...bonum ever implies a different philosophy. Gritolaus's arguing is almost as ponderous and commanding as that of the ancients whom he proposed to imitate ; and this must be said for him, he no where departs from the good old way ; but then he surfeits you with a superfluity and luxuriancy of words. Dio- dorus, a pupil of his, tacks virtue and indolence together, and so is as singular in his summum bo^ num, and as distinct from the peripatetics as Hieronymus. But as for the doctrine of the ancients, my friend Antiochus has been at the pains to repre- sent it fairly in all its parts, and proves that it was the same with that which Aristotle and Polemo have since asserted.
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Aristo, his disciple, excelled 'in politeness and elegance, but wanted the main perfection, seriousnes and solidity of reasoning. He has wrote many volumes very neatly and handsomely ; it were to be wished his performances carried in them a greater sway and cogency. Many others I might • ~ BOOK THE JIFTH. . S49 mention, as particularly the learned and eloquent Hieronymus, though in regard indolence is his summum bonum, it is somewhat absurd to make a peripatetic of him ; for a different summum ...bonum ever implies a different philosophy. Gritolaus's arguing is almost as ponderous and commanding as that of the ancients whom he proposed to imitate ; and this must be said for him, he no where departs from the good old way ; but then he surfeits you with a superfluity and luxuriancy of words. Dio- dorus, a pupil of his, tacks virtue and indolence together, and so is as singular in his summum bo^ num, and as distinct from the peripatetics as Hieronymus. But as for the doctrine of the ancients, my friend Antiochus has been at the pains to repre- sent it fairly in all its parts, and proves that it was the same with that which Aristotle and Polemo have since asserted.
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