Marcus Tullius Cicero

This useful edition of Cicero's speech De imperio Cn. Pompe was first published in Macmillan's Modern School Classics series in 1966 and has been frequently reprinted. It contains a substantial introduction with sections on Cicero's and Pompey's lives, on Roman oratory, and on the historical and political background to the speech. The Latin text is followed by extensive notes on both language and context, and the edition is completed by maps and a vocabulary.

In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and appendices, is the first full-scale scholarly treatment of the speech. The text takes account of Gulielmius’ reports of the missing portion of the Erfurtensis manuscript, recovered by Dr Berry and published as a preliminary to this edition in 1989; a complete collation is provided of this and the other principal manuscripts. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla’s guilt and Cicero’s undertaking of the case, and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.

Cicero’s De re publica contains the fullest ancient account of the theory of the mixed constitution and the oldest extant narrative of early Roman history; it concludes with the Dream of Scipio, one of the most influential ancient visions of the afterlife. The argument of the dialogue concerns the relationship between political theory and practice, and between social institutions and the individual citizen. This edition of most of the surviving portions of De re publica is the most detailed commentary ever to appear in English. It explains Cicero’s philosophical argument and its relationship to his account of early Rome, and thoroughly elucidates the language and style of the treatise. The introduction offers a new and provocative interpretation of Cicero’s dialogue as a work both of literature and of political philosophy.

This text and commentary on Cicero's Verrines II.4 will guide students of Latin in translating a classical piece on political corruption in ancient Rome. Cicero's Verrine Oration II.4 is a comprehensive and versatile tool that will assist students in the early stages of reading and understanding Latin literary texts. Dickison's volume includes the complete Oxford Classical text of Cicero's Verrines II.4. Her detailed commentary provides students with generous assistance in identifying and managing difficult constructions and in recognizing forms and supplying definitions for vocabulary. When translations are given for difficult phrases, a literal rendering of the Latin is often included as a means of help. A brief summary in English of each section accompanies the commentary. A glossary of every world in the text helps students with a modest knowledge of Latin to read the text without experiencing undue frustration.

This impeccable edition still stands the test of time for students at school and university who wish to approach Cicero's major speeches against Mark Antony after the assassination of Julius Caesar. Denniston's commentary gives assistance with grammatical matters but concentrates on presenting plainly, yet fully, the evidence bearing on problems of the historical background and features of Roman life and institutions to which the text alludes. There is a clear introduction which sets out the speeches' historical context and provides an analysis of their content.

The Roman statesman Lucius Licinius Murena led legions in the Mithridatic Wars and subsequently became administrator of Transalpine Gaul. On his election as consul in 62 BC he was accused of bribery and defended by (among others) Cicero, in this famous speech. Murena was acquitted, though the balance of opinion is that he was probably guilty. This school edition includes introduction, the Latin text, notes and vocabulary.

This useful student text, first published in 1893, consists of anintroduction covering the historical background to Milo's trial for themurder of Clodius in 52 BC, the political significance of the trial, and Cicero's treatment of the case. The Latin text of the speech isfollowed by extensive notes, a short analysis of the structure of thespeech, and indexes. Finally, Asconius' commentary (in Latin) isincluded.

De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero’s last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would survive, Cicero here handed on the insights of an elder statesman, adept at political theory and practice, to his son, and through him, to the younger generation in general. De Officiis has often been treated merely as a key to the lost Greek works that Cicero used. This volume aims to render De Officiis, which was such an important influence on later masterpieces of Western political thought, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. A wholly new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and all the standard features of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, including a chronology, select bibliography, and notes on the vocabulary and significant individuals mentioned in the text.

This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world. The Roman and Ciceronian qualities of the work are emphasized, rather than the search for lost sources that occupied scholars in the past. Matters of text, language, and content are all considered equally in the commentary.

Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero’s letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and in the upper forms at schools, and offers them a representative introduction to one of the most varied and most important literary correspondences in any language. In choosing letters for inclusion the editor concentrates on Cicero as a man and writer and on his relationship with his contemporaries, but he has also included letters which deal with people and events of special significance in the turbulent political history of the period. The edition includes an introduction, the text of the letters with critical notes, and a commentary which gives help with linguistic problems as well as elucidating the historical and social background.

In den drei Büchern des philosophischen Dialogs finden sich zwar reichhaltige Ausführungen über die Gestaltung einer überzeugenden Rede, doch ist das Werk nicht in erster Linie ein Lehrbuch wie etwa die Rhetorik des R Aristoteles. Im Zentrum steht der perfekte Redner als Bildungsideal, der verantwortungsbewusste, sachkundige Gelehrte, der sich der Rede zur Vermittlung seines Wissens und Standpunkts zu bedienen weiß. Der ideale Redner müsse nicht nur ein Wortkünstler sein, sondern habe sich vor allem auch durch Sachverstand auszuzeichnen. Die Redekunst sei eine Sache, von der der Redner Bescheid wissen müsse, über die er nachgedacht, deren Möglichkeiten und Gefahren er kennen muss. Ciceros Buch besteht aus kunstvollen Reden von Personen, die selbst mehr oder minder gewandte Redner waren. Die Ausübung der Rhetorik ist an Philosophie und Rechtskenntnis geknüpft, da sie nicht bloße Technik sein soll, sondern eine klare Darstellung zum Ziel hat, um dem Zuhörer ein ausgewogenes Urteil zu erlauben. Ciceros Redekunst beschränkt sich nicht allein auf die Gestaltung der Rede, sondern bezieht den ganzen Menschen ein, sein Sprechen, sein Denken, seinen Körper, seine Verantwortung für die Hörerschaft und das Thema, über das er sich verbreitet.

A scholarly edition of a work by Cicero. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.