On Old Age - Cicero de Senectute
On Old Age - Cicero de Senectute

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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'On Old Age', sometimes also known as 'Cato Maior de Senectute', is an essay written by Cicero on the subject of aging and death. To lend his reflections greater import, Cicero wrote his essay such that the esteemed Cato the Elder was lecturing to Scipio Africanus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens.

Cato Maior de Senectute
Cato Maior de Senectute

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-04-14

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521335010

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This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age )with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world. The Roman and Ciceronian qualities of the work are emphasized, rather than the search for lost sources that occupied scholars in the past. Matters of text, language, and content are all considered equally in the commentary.

Cicero de Senectute (Cato Major) a Dialogue on Old Age (Classic Reprint)
Cicero de Senectute (Cato Major) a Dialogue on Old Age (Classic Reprint)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780265432648

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Excerpt from Cicero De Senectute (Cato Major) A Dialogue on Old Age Cicero, born fifty years later, was carefully educated in these liberal arts, and always retained an interest in them, of which his orations contain many indications. He early formed the design of setting forth in Latin. The whole body of philosophy, a design which he may be said to have in the main accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.