Volume 1

The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Titus Pomponius Atticus : in sixteen books / translated into English with notes by William Heberden.

  • Cicero
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Titus Pomponius Atticus : in sixteen books / translated into English with notes by William Heberden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    liar letters must be liable to obscurity in proportion to our ignorance of the persons and circumstances, often of little notoriety, to which they allude; much more is it to be expected, that in a correspondence entertained at so remote a period, where there exist no remains of the letters on one side, and not unfrequently no record of the particulars which form their subject, many difficulties should present themselves, inde- pendent of those which are inseparable from customs and language long since gone into disuse. It is therefore no idle task to ren- der documents, at once so curious and in- structive, more extensively useful, by mak- ing them more generally understood. For whether we consider the matter, or the manner, of these letters, their author, or the time when they were written; they constitute in every point of view one of the most precious remains of antiquity. Cicero, as your Lordship knows, was not only the greatest orator of Rome; he was at the same time one of her wisest counsellors,
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