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THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY.451seiice from political life before and after the deathof Ca3sar he transfused with such rapidity into aLatin shape the products of Greek discussion.38Thus his treatise on the Eepublic and on Lawsare in form imitations of Plato's writings withthe same title, while for their contents Ciceroapplies Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic doctrinesto his own political experiences, making also muchuse of Polybius. His Paradoxa explain Stoic propositions.The groundwork of his Consolatio isGrantor's writing upon Grief. The Lost Hortensiusis drawn from an exhortation of Aristotle to The-niison, a prince of a city of Cyprus, or from asimilar work of the academician Philo of LarissaV:his books De Finibus from works of Phjjedrus,Chrysippus, Carneades, Antiochus, as well as thestudies which Cicero himself in his youth madewhile attending lectures ; his Academica from thewritings and partly also from the lectures of thebest-known Academicians : his Tusculan Disputationsfrom Plato and Grantor, from Stoics andPeripatetics. The first book on the Nature