Two dialogues written in 44 BC: Laelius on his friendship with Scipio, and the elder Cato, at eighty-four, on why old age need not be dreaded. Both were read in schools for centuries.
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Translator: E. S. Shuckburgh, 1909. Source: Gutenberg 2808.
The text here is E. S. Shuckburgh’s translation, as printed in the Harvard Classics, 1909, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 2808, set unaltered.
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