Book detail: Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This volume gathers three significant philosophical treatises by Marcus Tullius Cicero, the renowned Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher of the first century BCE. Cato Maior de Senectute presents a dialogue on old age, framed as a discourse delivered by the elder Cato the Censor. Laelius de Amicitia explores the nature of friendship through a conversation attributed to Gaius Laelius Sapiens. De Divinatione examines the practice and validity of divination in Roman religious and political life. These works belong to Cicero's period of intensive philosophical writing during the final years of the Roman Republic, when he produced Latin adaptations and discussions of Greek philosophical thought for Roman audiences. The twenty-eight volume format indicates an extensive editorial project aiming to present the breadth of Cicero's literary output, encompassing his speeches, philosophical works, and correspondence. The three texts in this particular volume illustrate Cicero's engagement with ethical questions and Roman cultural concerns, rendered in the rhetorical style for which he was celebrated.
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