[145]. Ad Att. iv. 4, 8.
[146]. Ad Att. i. 13.
[147]. Ibid. i. 19.
[148]. De Leg. i. 7. He is still faithful to this part of an amateur in philosophy, when he says further on (i. 21), that Antiochus had made him take a few steps in the Academy, deduxit in Academiam perpauculis passibus. He never penetrated further.
[149]. T. Pomp. Att. 13. All the preceding details are taken from the life of Atticus by Cornelius Nepos.
[150]. Ad Att. vi. 1.
[151]. Ad Att. iv. 9.
[152]. Ibid. vi. 1.
[153]. Ad Att. vii. 8: soles conglutinare amicitias.
[154]. It is the saying of Tacitus: pessimum veri affectus venenum sua cuique utilitas.