キケロー書簡集 第1巻
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- 英語
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- 完全な作品
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- 著者自身による
- テキストの状態:
- スキャン誤りあり (全文に対する自動測定で、人の目では確認していません) · 判読できない箇所 4 件は回答から除外しています
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- APAキケロ. (n.d.). The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 [キケロー書簡集 第1巻]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/cicero/the-letters-of-cicero-volume-1
- MLAキケロ. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 [キケロー書簡集 第1巻]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/cicero/the-letters-of-cicero-volume-1.
- Chicagoキケロ. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 [キケロー書簡集 第1巻]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/cicero/the-letters-of-cicero-volume-1.
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何についての本か
キケロー書簡集の第一巻。彼自身と通信相手たちの九百通ほどの手紙であり、偶然によって残った。古代全体を通じて我々の手にあるもっとも私的な史料である。
背景と歴史
公にするために書かれたものではない。要はそこに尽きる。ここでのキケローは、ためらい、こぼし、計算し、意見を変え、自分と矛盾する。弁論にも論考にも決してないことだ。主な相手はアッティクス、生涯の友であり、この人には何も隠さない。共和政が倒れていく年月にまたがるので、これは個人の証言であると同時に政治の年代記でもある。ローマの権力という機構が、内側から、しかも進行形で見える。のちの歴史叙述が与える秩序を通さずに、である。本巻は内乱前夜の年までを収め、以後は続く諸巻へと続く。
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Those addressed to other friends are sometimes familiar and playful, sometimes angry and indignant. Some of them are careful and elaborate state papers, others mere formal introductions and recommendations. Business, literature, and philosophy all have their share in them; and, what is so rare in ancient literature, the family relations of the writer, his dealings with wife, son, and daughter, brother and nephew, and sons-in-law, are all depicted for us, often with the utmost frankness. After reading them we seem to know Cicero the man, as well as Cicero the statesman and orator. The eleven letters which precede the consulship are happily, from this point of view, addressed to Atticus. For it was to Atticus that he wrote with the least concealment, and with the confidence that any detail, however small, which concerned himself would be interesting to his correspondent. It is well, therefore, that, though we thus come into his life when it was more than half over, we should at once hear his genuine sentiments on whatever subjects he may be speaking. Besides his own, we have about ninety letters to Cicero from some of the chief men of the day--Pompey, Cæsar, Cato, Brutus, Antony, and many others. They are of very various excellence. The best of them are by much less known men. Neither Pompey nor Cæsar were good letter-writers, or, if the latter was so, he was too busy to use his powers. [Sidenote: Cicero's position previous to the beginning of the Correspondence in B.C. 68.] [Sidenote: Quæstor, B.C. 75.] The letters begin, then, in B.C. 68, when Cicero was in his thirty-seventh year. He was already a man of established reputation both as a pleader and a writer. Rhetorical treatises (B.C. 86), translations from Xenophon and Plato (B.C. 84), and from the poems of Aratus (B.C.…