De Officiis
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In the _de Officiis_ we have, save for the latter Philippics, the great orator's last contribution to literature. The last, sad, troubled years of his busy life could not be given to his profession; and he turned his never-resting thoughts to the second love of his student days and made Greek philosophy a possibility for Roman readers. The senate had been abolished; the courts had been closed. His occupation was gone…
Details
- AuthorCicero
- SourceProject Gutenberg #47001
- Length112,763 words · 7h 31m of reading
- Chapters9
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
9 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01CICERO
- 02INTRODUCTION
- 03BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 04LIBER PRIMUS / BOOK I
- 05LIBER SECUNDUS / BOOK II
- 06LIBER TERTIUS / BOOK III
- 07Múlti iniqui atque ínfideles régno, pauci bénivoli,[340
- 08Néque dedi neque do ínfideli cuíquam
- 09INDEX
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