Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero Translator: E. S. Shuckburgh Release Date: January 4, 2009 [EBook #2808] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON FRIENDSHIP *** Produced by David Reed, and David Widger TREATISES ON FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE By Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh Contents INTRODUCTORY NOTE ON FRIENDSHIP ON OLD AGE INTRODUCTORY NOTE MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belonged to the class of the "Knights," moved to Rome when Cicero was a child; and the future statesman received an elaborate education in rhetoric, law, and philosophy, studying and practising under some of the most noted teachers of the time. He began his career as an advocate at the age of twenty-five, and almost immediately came to be recognized not only as a man of brilliant talents but also as a courageous upholder of justice in the face of grave political danger.