Cicero
Subtitle: Epistulae ad Familiares (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)
Contributors: D. R. Shackleton-Bailey (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780521606981
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Latin; Language; Ancient Rome; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
First sentence: Etsi uterque nostrum spe pacis et odio civilis sanguinis abesse a belli (non) necessari[a] pertinacia voluit, tarnen, quoniam eius consili princeps ego fuisse videor, plus fortasse tibi praestare ipse debeo quam a te exspectare; etsi, ut saepe soleo mecum recordari, sermo familiaris meus tecum et item mecum tuus adduxit utrumque nostrum ad id consilium ut uno proelio putaremus, si non totam causam, at certe nostrum iudicium definiri convenire.