On the Republic. On the Laws

by Cicero, Clinton W. Keyes

Overview

The statesman on statecraft.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674992351
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1928
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #213
Edition description:	11th printing/1st pub.1928/index
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Latin

About the Author

Clinton Walker Keyes (1888–1943) was Professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

List Of Cicero's Works

De Re Publica

Introduction

Text and translation

De Legibus

Introduction

Text and translation

Index