Cicero’s last philosophical book, written for his son in the months after Caesar’s murder: what is honourable, what is useful, and what to do when they seem to conflict. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance read it as the handbook of a gentleman, and it was one of the first classical books to be printed, at Mainz in 1465.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. On Duties shares wording with 1 of the other 55. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
Gaul by whom he had been challengedBook 6 and Book 3
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Walter Miller, 1913. Source: Gutenberg 47001.
The text here is Walter Miller’s translation for the Loeb Classical Library, 1913, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 47001. The Latin printed facing it, his notes and his marginal summaries are not included.
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