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Cicero · C. D. Yonge
Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853. Five dialogues held at Cicero’s villa at Tusculum: on the contempt of death, on bearing pain, on grief, on the disorders of the soul, and on virtue as sufficient for happiness. In the year a.u.c. 708, and the sixty-second year of Cicero’s age, his daughter, Tullia, died in childbed; and her loss afflicted Cicero to such a degree that he abandoned all public business, and, leaving the city, retired to Asterra, which was a country house that he had near Antium; where, after a while, he devoted himself to philosophical studies, and, besides other works, he published his Treatise de Finibus, and also this treatise called the Tusculan Disputations, of which Middleton gives this concise description: “The first book teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death, and to look upon it as a blessing rather than an evil; “The second, to support pain and affliction …
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