キケロー——アッティクス宛書簡集 第3巻（全3巻）

Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. T. E. PAGE, LITT.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT.D. LETTERS TO ATTICUS III CICERO'S LETTERS TO ATTICUS. VOLUME I. BOOKS I.-VI. VOLUME II. BOOKS VII.-XI. CICERO LETTERS TO ATTICUS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY E. O. WINSTEDT, M.A. OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES III LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS MCMXVIII INTRODUCTION The letters contained in this volume begin with one written just after Caesar's final victory over the remains of the Pompeian party at Thapsus in April, 46 B.C., and cover three of the last four years of Cicero's life. When they open, Cicero was enjoying a restful interval after the troublous times of the Civil War. He had made his peace with Caesar and reconciled himself to a life of retirement and literary activity. In the Senate he never spoke except to deliver a speech pleading for the return from exile of his friend Marcellus; and his only other public appearance was to advocate the cause of another friend, Ligarius. In both he was successful; and, indeed, so he seems also to have been in private appeals to Caesar on behalf of friends.…