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…
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- AuthorCicero
- SourceProject Gutenberg #47001
- Length112,014 words · 7h 28m of reading
- Chapters2
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
2 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01DE OFFICIIS
- 02Book III 269
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