Excerpt from Select Orations of M. Tullius Cicero: With Notes, for the Use of Schools and Colleges
Tms volume of Select Orations of Cicero is intended to form one of the series of Classical Books published by the Messrs. Appleton, and was prepared at their request. After the pur pose was formed to issue such a volume, there appeared in England, edited by T. K. Arnold, a small volume containing the fourth book of the impeachment of Verres, the four speeches against Catiline, and the Speech for the poet Archias. It was the desire of the publishers that that volume should be made the basis of their edition, and accordingly, so far as it coincided with the selection usually read in the preparatory schools of our country, it has been incorporated in the present work. The Verrine oration, Which is given in the English edition, has been omitted in the present, as it is the intention of the editor to issue it in some other form.
The present volume will be found to contain those orations, Which in this country usually go under the name of select orations. They are the same, and given in the same order as in the Boston edition, with the exception of the second Philip pic, which is omitted in the present volume.
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Marcus Tullis Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman statesman and philosopher whose lifetime coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman republic. His best-known works include On the Republic, On Duties, and Treatises on Friendship and Old Age.
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