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De Officiis (On Duties, On Obligations, or On Moral Responsibilities) is a 44 BC treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations. The posthumously published work discusses what is honorable (Book I), what is to one's advantage ...
His Tusculan villa had a gallery called the Academy, which Cicero had built for the purpose of philosophical conversation. [4] It is largely agreed that Cicero wrote the Tusculan Disputations in the summer and/or autumn of 45 BC. [5] Cicero addresses the Disputationes to his friend Brutus, a fellow politician of note, and later assassin of ...
The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most renowned collections of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity. Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist who lived during the years of 106–43 BC.
Marcus Tullius Cicero [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ s ə r oʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, [4] who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. [5]
A Dialogue Concerning Oratorical Partitions (also called De Partitione Oratoria Dialogus, Partitiones Oratoriae, or De Partitionbus Oratoriae, translated to be "On the subdivisions of oratory") is a rhetorical treatise, written by Cicero.
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UAH (Latin, with translation notes): Cicero Page; De Officiis, translated by Walter Miller; Cicero's works: text, concordances and frequency list; Biographies and descriptions of Cicero's time: At Project Gutenberg Plutarch's biography of Cicero contained in the Parallel Lives; Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope, Volume I – Volume II
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