Mt Cicero His Offices Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Subtitle: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; the Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory General Books publicati... more »on date: 2009 Original publication date: 1755 Original Publisher: T. Waller Subjects: History / Ancient / Rome Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: O C A T O Major, CONCERNING Old Age: O R, Conferences about the Means of making Old Age happy and comfortable, between Cato, Scipio, and Lelius. Addrefs'dby Cic Ero to Pomp Onius Attic Ps. INTRODUCTION, CHAP. I. ATS (a) Titus, Jhould my friendly Arts controut, 'The teazing Tumults of thy reftkfs Saul; Will it avail me ought ? You fee, my Friend, that I take the Liberty to aCcoft you with the fame Lines, in which Flaminius was addrefs'd by the Man (a) Say Titus] Thofe Verfes are from an old Poet, perhaps r. nmus, and are addrefsll to that Flaminius, who procur'd Kin; Prufta's Confeot to giye up Hannibal, who upon that uoifon'd hunfelf. OfOf low Eftate, but ofunjhaken 'Truth. Meanwhile, I am entirely fenfible that your Cafe is not the fame with that of Flaminius,' Whofe anxious Thoughts mr £)ay nor Night affwag'd. For I well know the Gentlenefs and the Smoothnefs of your Difpofition, and that you have imported from Athens, not only your Surname, but Polite- nefs and good Senfe. And yet I fufpecl:, that you and I, are fometimes deeply affected with the very (V) fame Confiderations : But the Cure that is to be adminifter'd to them is of greater Difficulty and muft be delay'd to a more proper Seafon. At p...« less