Pro Caelio. De Provinciis Consularibus. Pro Balbo
Three postconsular speeches.

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.

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Pro Caelio. De Provinciis Consularibus. Pro Balbo
Three postconsular speeches.

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.

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Pro Caelio. De Provinciis Consularibus. Pro Balbo

Pro Caelio. De Provinciis Consularibus. Pro Balbo

Pro Caelio. De Provinciis Consularibus. Pro Balbo

Pro Caelio. De Provinciis Consularibus. Pro Balbo

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Three postconsular speeches.

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: 9780674994928
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1958
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #447
Edition description: 4th printing/1st pub.1958/index
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.90(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

Robert Gardner (1889–1972) was Fellow and Bursar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of Cicero's Works

Preface

Events, 60 to 56 BCE

Roman Politics, 63 to 57 BCE

Pro Caelio

Early Career of M. Caelius Rufus

Trial of Caelius

Text And Translation

The Structure of Pro Caelio

Later Career of Caelius

De Provinciis Consularibus

Introduction

Text And Translation

Summary

Pro Balbo

Early Career of L. Cornelius Balbus

Trial of L. Cornelius Balbus

Text And Translation

The Structure of Pro Balbo

Later Career of L. Cornelius Balbus

Bibliography

Index

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