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Cicero's Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties. Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age Laelius, an Essay on Friendship Paradoxes Scipio's Dream and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate

Cicero's Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties. Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age Laelius, an Essay on Friendship Paradoxes Scipio's Dream and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...the decease of friends, are wont to be tormented: for I feel that no evil has happened to Scipio; it has befallen myself, if indeed it has happened to any. Now to be above measure distressed at one's own troubles, is characteristic of the man who loves not his friend, but himself. In truth, as far as he ia concerned, who can deny that his end was glorious? for unless he had chosen to wish for immortality, of which he had not the slightest thought, what did he fail to obtain which it was lawful for a man to wish for? A man who, as soon as he grew up, by his transcendent merit far surpassed those sanguine hopes of his countrymen which they had conceived regarding him when a mere boy, who never stood for the consulship, yet was made consul twice; on the first occasion before his time; on the second, at the proper age as regarded himself, though for the commonwealth almost too late: who, by overthrowing two cities, most hostile to our empire, put an end, not only to all present, but all future wars. What shall I say of his most engaging manners; of his dutiful conduct to' his mother; his generosity to his sisters; his kindness to his friends; his uprightness towards all? These are known to you: and how dear he was to the state, was displayed by its mourning at his death. How, therefore, could the accession Carthage was destroyed by Scipio, the second Africanus, B.c. 147; and Numantia, a town of Spain, B.c. 133. From the latter exploit he obtained the surname of Numantinus. of a few years have benefited such a man? For although old age is not burdensome (as I recollect Cato asserted, in conversation with myself and Scipio the year before he died), yet it takes away that freshness which Scipio even yet possessed. Wherefore his life was such, that...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150433917
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 146
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150433914
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 272 gr


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