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What a loss we have had in Varro's mythological and critical works! It is / said that the works of Epicurus are probably amongst the Herculanean / manuscripts. I do not feel much interest about them, because, by the / consent of all antiquity, Lucretius has preserved a complete view of his / system. But I regret the loss of the works of the old Stoics, Zeno and / others, exceedingly.
Socrates, as such, was only a poetical character to Plato, who worked upon / his own ground. The several disciples of Socrates caught some particular / points from him, and made systems of philosophy upon them according to / their own views. Socrates himself had no system.