De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Complete work

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Written by the author

Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have not been corrected, punctuation has been silently corrected. A list of other corrections to the text can be found at the end of the document. In the book the Latin text is printed on the left page, and the English translation on the right. Here, the text is split by sections starting with a roman numeral, and the Latin text is followed by its English translation. The section numbers that appeared in the margin are placed between *asterisks*. Sidenotes are placed between #hashtags# and are placed either above the paragraph they refer to or inline. Numbers printed in superscript are preceded by a ^. CICERO DE OFFICIIS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY WALTER MILLER LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. MCMXIII CONTENTS Introduction _Page_ ix Bibliography xiii Book I 1 Book II 167 Book III 269 Index 405 INTRODUCTION In the _de Officiis_ we have, save for the latter Philippics, the great orator's last contribution to literature. The last, sad, troubled years of his busy life could not be given to his profession; and he turned his never-resting thoughts to the second love of his student days and made In the _de Officiis_ we have, save for the latter Philippics, the great orator's last contribution to literature. The last, sad, troubled years of his busy life could not be given to his profession; and he turned his never-resting thoughts to the second love of his student days and made Greek philosophy a possibility for Roman readers. The senate had been abolished; the courts had been closed. His occupation was gone; but Cicero could not surrender himself to idleness. In those days of distraction (46-43 B.C.) he produced for publication almost as muc

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