If the following sketch of Cicero's life and writings be thought
unworthy of so great a subject, the Author must plead the circumstances
under which it was made.
In the spring of 1824, when his hands were full of work, Dr. Whately
paid him the compliment of asking him to write it for the
Encyclopædia Metropolitana, to which he was at that time himself
contributing. Dr. Whately explained to him that the Editor had suddenly
been disappointed in the article on Cicero which was to have appeared
in the Encyclopædia, and that in consequence he could not allow
more than two months for the composition of the paper which was to take
its place; also, that it must contain such and such subjects. The
Author undertook and finished it under these conditions.
In the present Edition (1872) he has in some places availed himself
of the excellent translations of its Greek and Latin passages, made by
the Reverend Henry Thompson in the Edition of 1852.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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1. CHIEF EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF CICERO, §§ 1-4 245
2. HIS LITERARY POSITION, § 5 259
3. THE NEW ACADEMY AND HIS RELATION TO IT, §§ 6-7 264
4. HIS PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS, §§ 8-10 275
5. HIS LETTERS, HIS HISTORICAL AND POETICAL
COMPOSITIONS, § 10 289
6. HIS ORATIONS, § 11 291
7. HIS STYLE, § 12 295
8. THE ORATORS OF ROME, § 13 297