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Cicero · E. S. Shuckburgh
Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh, 1900. Laelius, mourning Scipio, discourses on the nature, laws, and worth of friendship — possible only between the good, and grounded in virtue. Contents Date of Composition ENOUGH HAS BEEN said in the introduction to the Cato Maior to show the amazing fecundity of Cicero’s genius in the years 45 and 44 B.C., during which time this treatise was written. The date of its composition belongs within the year 44, but the month cannot be fixed with absolute certainty. It was written after the Cato Maior and after the completion of Divination, in which (Div. II.3) Cicero gives the names of his philosophic books so far written and does not mention this work. It is referred to in the second volume of De officiis (II.9.31), which was written in November. In a letter to Atticus (ad Att. XVI.13c) Cicero, on November 5, 44, asks when “Fannius, son of Marcus” (one of …
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