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Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 68 pages

These two philosophical treatises by Marcus Tullius Cicero, written as dialogues, consider friendship and old age. They reflect on loyalty, virtue, and living with dignity in later years. They are worth listening to for their humane view of human bonds and wisdom.

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TREATISES ON
FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE
By Marcus Tullius Cicero
Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh
Contents
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and
the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at
Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His father, who was a man of
property and belonged to the class of the "Knights," moved
to Rome when Cicero was a child; and the future statesman

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Contents

  1. TREATISES ON FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE
  2. Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  5. ON FRIENDSHIP
  6. ON OLD AGE
  7. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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