Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. On the Agrarian Law
The early 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 Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. On the Agrarian Law
The early 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 Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. On the Agrarian Law

Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. On the Agrarian Law

Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. On the Agrarian Law

Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. On the Agrarian Law

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The early 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: 9780674992658
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1930
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #240
Edition description: 6th printing/1st pub.1930/indexes
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.10(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

John Henry Freese (1852–1930) was Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note


List Of Cicero's Works

The Speech In Defence Of Publies Quinctius—


Introduction


Text and Translation


The Speech In Defence Of Sextus Roscius Of Ameria—


Introduction


Text and Translation


The Speech In Defence Of Quintus Roscius The Comedian—


Introduction


Text and Translation


The First Speech On The Agrarian Law—


Introduction to the Three Speeches


Text and Translation


The Second Speech On The Agrarian Law—


Text and Translation


The Third Speech On The Agrarian Law—


Text and Translation


Fragments


Note On Popularis

Index To Proper Names

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