Cicero
On Friendship and On Old Age
Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh
What this is
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.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.