Ethical Writings of Cicero


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Cicero de Amicitia on Friendship and Scipio's Dream - Scholar's Choice Edition


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De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream


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* * * * * DE AMICITIA 1. Introduction. 2. Reputation of Laelius for wisdom. The curiosity to know how he bore the death of Scipio. 3. His grounds of consolation in his bereavement 4. He expresses his faith in immortality. Desires perpetual memory in this world of the friendship between himself and Scipio. 5. True friendship can exist only among good men. 6. Friendship defined. 7. Benefits derived from friendship. 8. Friendship founded not on need, but on nature. 9. The relation of utility to friendship. 10. Causes for the separation of friends.




De Amicitia and Scipio's Dream


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Scipio's Dream; or, The Dream of Scipio (Latin, Somnium Scipionis), written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he commanded at the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC. Laelius de Amicitia, or simply De Amicitia is a treatise on friendship by the Roman statesman and author Marcus Tullius Cicero, written in 44 BC. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.