num_pages: 192
description: Cicero's essay On Friendship (Laelius de amicitia) is of interest as much for the light it sheds on Roman society as for its embodiment of ancient philosophical views on the subjects of friendship. The Dream of Scipio was excerpted in late antiquity from Cicero's De Republica, a dialogue in six books which now only survives in fragmentary form.
language: English
title: Laelius, on Friendship and the Dream of Scipio
titlecomplete: Laelius, on Friendship and the Dream of Scipio (Classical Texts)
genres: Ancient History, Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 124
publisher: Liverpool University Press