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lay. One might believe Lucullus thought his money really captive and barbarian, so wantonly and contume- liously did he treat it. His furnishing a library, however, deserves praise and record, for he collected very many and choice manu- scripts ; and the use they were put to was even more magnificent than the purchase, the library being always open, and the walks and reading-rooms about it free to all Greeks, whose delight it was to leave their other occupations and hasten thither as to the habitation of the Muses, there walking about, and diverting one another. He himself often passed his hours there, disputing with the learned in the walks, and giving his advice to states- men who required it, insomuch that his house was alto- gether a home, and in a manner a Greek prytaneum for those that visited Eome. He was fond of all sorts of phi- losophy, and was well-read and expert in them all. But he always from the first specially favored and valued the Academy ; not the New one, which at that time under Philo flourished with the precepts of Carneades, but the Old one, then sustained and represented by Antiochus of Ascalon, a learned and eloquent man. Lucullus with great labor made him his friend and companion, and set him up against Philo's auditors, among whom Cicero was one, who wrote an admirable treatise in defence of his sect, in which he puts the argument in favor of compre- hension* in the mouth of Lucullus, and the opposite argu- ment in his own. The book is called Lucullus. For as has been said, they were great friends, and took the same

• Comprehensio is Cicero's literal argument, placed in the mouth of

Latin version of the Greek philo- Lucullus, in the book which bears eophieal term catalepsis, equivalent his name, the second of the Prior in the doctrine of Antiochus and of Academics, is in favor of the possi- the Stoics to what we might rather bility of certain and real knowledge, call apprehension, as opposed to in opposition to the sceptical views mere sensation, or impression. The of human capacities.