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What if growing old wasn't something to fear, but a journey to embrace with wisdom and grace? In this timeless work, Cicero shares powerful insights on aging, showing how it can become a time of intellectual growth, personal reflection, and inner peace. Alongside, he explores the true essence of friendship-how trust, loyalty, and shared values can build relationships that nourish the soul. Cicero's reflections are a guide to living a fuller, more meaningful life, no matter your age.
Cicero's How to Grow Old and a Guide to Friendship holds a significant place in history as one of the earliest works to address aging and friendship with philosophical depth. Written during a turbulent period in ancient Rome, it offers timeless wisdom on how to face life's later stages with grace and maintain meaningful human connections. Cicero's reflections influenced not only his contemporaries but also countless thinkers in the centuries that followed, shaping discussions on personal development and ethics. This work remains a cornerstone of classical philosophy, offering insights that still resonate today.
This impeccable edition still stands the test of time for students at
school and university who wish to approach Cicero's major speeches
against Mark Antony after the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Denniston's commentary gives assistance with grammatical matters but
concentrates on presenting plainly, yet fully, the evidence bearing on
problems of the historical background and features of Roman life and
institutions to which the text alludes. There is a clear introduction
which sets out the speeches' historical context and provides an analysis of their content.
This edition of Cicero's fifth oration against Verres, a Roman magistrate prosecuted for his notorious misgovernment of Sicily, includes introduction, the Latin text, a comprehensive commentary of the text and a vocabulary. The introduction, divided into seven sections, describes the history and condition of Sicily down to the time of Verres, with special attention to Roman administration and the duties of Roman governors.
First published in 1964 and aimed at advanced school students, this useful collection contains forty passages, coherent in themselves, illustrating Cicero's thinking on government, religion, law and ethics. An introduction gives the essential background, including a brief outline of Greek philosophy. There are practical notes on the texts, observations on Cicero's style and a select vocabulary.
The Roman statesman Lucius Licinius Murena led legions in the Mithridatic Wars and subsequently became administrator of Transalpine Gaul. On his election as consul in 62 BC he was accused of bribery and defended by (among others) Cicero, in this famous speech. Murena was acquitted, though the balance of opinion is that he was probably guilty. This school edition includes introduction, the Latin text, notes and vocabulary.
Of all the philosophical and rhetorical treatises of Cicero, his three books On the Orator (de Oratore) represent perhaps the most polished and appealing. Here is Rome's consummate orator and composer of forensic and political speeches, at the height of his powers, giving the considered results of his personal experience - not the dry theorising and bickering of different schools of declamation - in a way which continually keeps in view the practical needs of one who wishes to play the part of a true Roman citizen in the contests of the popular assemblies and the law-courts.
This edition, first published by Macmillan in 1943, has the straightforward utilitarian aims of all those prepared by H.E. Gould and J.L. Whiteley: a basic introduction, reliable text, suitable illustrations, and a vocabulary that gives only those meanings that are required. Last and perhaps most important of all, adequate assistance is provided in the notes, so that the student may feel capable of translating with confidence and accuracy.
