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Treatises on Friendship and Old Age - Cicero's Letters on Aging, Civic Duties, Law and Companionship (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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Treatises on Friendship and Old Age - Cicero's Letters on Aging, Civic Duties, Law and Companionship (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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This fine edition of Cicero's treatises on the topics of
friendship, old age and life contains the respected translation of
E. S. Shuckburgh. Written in the second century A.D., these
writings encapsulate the wisdom and ability possessed by their
author. Already well into maturity, it is here that the accumulated
experience of a man who had - in an illustrious career of public
service in the Roman Empire - seen and known all manner of events
and people in his bustling society. The attributes important to
friendship are identified by Cicero as he discusses the qualities a
good friend should have. There are several intractable virtues of
friendship, which must be preserved lest the union be damaged. The
second treatise elaborates upon what it is to be old. Writing so as
to echo the much esteemed Cato the Elder, the beauty and profundity
of the words in this essay are significant. The clear and plain yet
succinct and wistfully eloquent words elaborate on aging and the
concerns that arrive with it.
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