Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 9 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~130,000 words · 621 passages
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- APACicero. (n.d.). Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-3-of-3
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- ChicagoCicero. Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-3-of-3.
What it is about
The third of the three volumes of Cicero's letters to Atticus: the frankest correspondence to reach us from antiquity.
Context and history
Atticus was the friend of his whole life, a rich knight who never sought public office, and precisely for that reason Cicero writes to him as he writes to no one else: without posing, changing his mind halfway through a letter, asking advice and confessing fear. It is the principal source for the last years of the republic seen from within. NOTE TO THE READER: the catalogue also holds 'The Letters of Cicero', a different edition gathering the whole correspondence in chronological order — so the letters to Atticus appear there TOO. This is not an error: they are two distinct editions of the same material, differently translated and differently arranged. It is worth knowing, because the same letter may appear twice in different words, and a citation must say which edition it comes from.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. T. E. PAGE, LITT.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT.D. LETTERS TO ATTICUS III CICERO'S LETTERS TO ATTICUS. VOLUME I. BOOKS I.-VI. VOLUME II. BOOKS VII.-XI. CICERO LETTERS TO ATTICUS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY E. O. WINSTEDT, M.A. OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES III LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS MCMXVIII INTRODUCTION The letters contained in this volume begin with one written just after Caesar's final victory over the remains of the Pompeian party at Thapsus in April, 46 B.C., and cover three of the last four years of Cicero's life. When they open, Cicero was enjoying a restful interval after the troublous times of the Civil War. He had made his peace with Caesar and reconciled himself to a life of retirement and literary activity. In the Senate he never spoke except to deliver a speech pleading for the return from exile of his friend Marcellus; and his only other public appearance was to advocate the cause of another friend, Ligarius. In both he was successful; and, indeed, so he seems also to have been in private appeals to Caesar on behalf of friends. But their relations were never intimate,[1] and Cicer