Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid
treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part
published not long after his death, over 800 of them were
rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth
century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled;
nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a
prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a
momentous period in Roman history.
The 435 letters collected here represent Cicero's
correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of 20
years, from 62 BCE, when Cicero's political career was at its peak,
to 43 BCE, the year he was put to death by the victorious
Triumvirs. They range widely in substance and style, from official
dispatches and semi-public letters of political importance to
casual notes that chat with close friends about travels and
projects, domestic pleasures and books, and questions currently
debated. This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the "Letters to
Friends," in three volumes, brings together D. R. Shackleton
Bailey's standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of
his much admired translation first published by Penguin. This
authoritative edition complements the new Loeb edition of Cicero's
"Letters to Atticus," also translated by Shackleton Bailey.
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