In the beginning of June Cicero spent a few days at his villa near Antium[144], where he wrote a treatise addressed to Caesar, which he afterwards suppressed[145]. From the same place he wrote to Atticus of his intention to proceed to Tusculum or Rome by way of Lanuvium about the middle of June[146]. He had in the time immediately following Tullia's death entertained an aversion for Tusculum, where she died. This he felt now compelled to conquer, otherwise he must either abandon Tusculum altogether, or, if he returned at all, a delay of even ten years would make the effort no less painful[147]. Before setting out for Antium Cicero wrote to Atticus that he had finished while at Astura _duo magna_ συνταγματα, words which have given rise to much controversy[148]. Many scholars, including Madvig, have understood that the first edition of the _Academica_, along with the _De Finibus_, is intended. Against this view the reasons adduced by Krische are convincing[149]. It is clear from the letters to Atticus that the _De Finibus_ was being worked out book by book long after the first edition of the _Academica_ had been placed in the hands of Atticus. The _De Finibus_ was indeed begun at Astura[150], but it was still in an unfinished state when Cicero began to revise the _Academica_[151]. The final arrangement of the characters in the _De Finibus_ is announced later still[152]; and even at a later date Cicero complains that Balbus had managed to obtain surreptitiously a copy of the fifth book before it was properly corrected, the irrepressible Caerellia having copied the whole five books while in that state[153]. A passage in the _De Divinatione_[154] affords almost direct evidence that the _Academica_ was published before the _De Finibus_. On all these grounds I hold that these two works cannot be those which Cicero describes as having been finished simultaneously at Astura.