Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

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Marcus Cicero. Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

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7THE TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS

INTRODUCTION

BOOK I. ON THE CONTEMPT OF DEATH

BOOK II. ON BEARING PAIN

BOOK III. ON GRIEF OF MIND

128BOOK IV. On other perturbations of the mind

163BOOK V. WHETHER VIRTUE ALONE BE SUFFICIENT FOR A HAPPY LIFE

209THE NATURE OF THE GODS

BOOK I

BOOK II

BOOK III

357ON THE COMMONWEALTH

PREFACE BY THE EDITOR

359INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST BOOK, BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR

360BOOK I

396INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND BOOK, BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR

BOOK II

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD BOOK, BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR

BOOK III

446INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH BOOK, BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR

BOOK IV

INTRODUCTION TO THE FIFTH BOOK, BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR

BOOK V

INTRODUCTION TO THE SIXTH BOOK

BOOK VI. SCIPIO’S DREAM

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In the year a.u.c. 708, and the sixty-second year of Cicero’s age, his daughter, Tullia, died in childbed; and her loss afflicted Cicero to such a degree that he abandoned all public business, and, leaving the city, retired to Asterra, which was a country house that he had near Antium; where, after a while, he devoted himself to philosophical studies, and, besides other works, he published his Treatise de Finibus, and also this treatise called the Tusculan Disputations, of which Middleton gives this concise description:

“The first book teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death, and to look upon it as a blessing rather than an evil;

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It was not Hector that you dragged along, but a body that had been Hector’s. Here another starts from underground, and will not suffer his mother to sleep:

When these verses are sung with a slow and melancholy tune, so as to affect the whole theatre with sadness, one can scarce help thinking those unhappy that are unburied:

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