 Lefèvre most aggressively retooled ancient philosophy for contemporary concerns, however, when dealing with Plato’s ethical philosophy. Again, he proceeded as an editor. Alongside Aristotle’s Politics and Economics, Lefèvre presented one of his most enigmatic works, the Hecatonomiae (1506). In seven hundred lines, loosely taken from Marsilio Ficino’s translations of Plato’s Laws (600 lines) and Republic (100 lines), he reconstructed something like a Platonic dialogue to complement Aristotle’s works. His purpose seems to have been primarily pedagogical: to present a Plato safe for student consumption, complete with occasional marginal admonitions to “beware” (caute) and a list of Platonic opinions which should be rejected (such as possessing women and children in common). The work represented those parts of Plato which Aristotle had frequently discussed in his own moral philosophy and therefore had evidently found useful, as Lefèvre explained in his prefatory letter (Rice 1972: 156; cf. Boisset 1973). It was, without apology, “Aristotle’s Plato”.