...-^uc THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY T. E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. PAGE, LITT.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, utt.d. CICEKO DE OFFICIIS I . M.TULLIUS CICERO. rROMTHE JAMES LO£B COLLECTION ^y^ CICERO DE OFFICIIS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY WALTER MILLER PBOFESSOR OF LATIN IN IHE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOUEI LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD NEW YORK G. R PUTNAM'S SONS : : MCMXXVIII IV5 rhst printed 1913 Rtprinted 1921, 1928 PrxMtdin Oreat Brttain by Woods and Soni, Lld., LonJon, M. I INTRODUCTION In the de Officiis we have, save for the latter PhiUppicSj the great orator's last contribution to The last, sad, troubled years of his busj"^ literature. life could not be given to his profession; and he turned his never-resting thoughts to the second love of his student days and made Greek philosophy a possibihty for Roman readers. The senate had been abohshed; the courts had been closed. His occupation was gone but Cicero could not surrender himself to idleness. In those days of distraction (46-43 b.c.) he produced for pubhcation almost as much as in all his years of active life. The liberators had been able to remove the tyrant, but they could not restore the republic. Cicero's own hfe was in danger from the fury of mad Antony and he left Rome about the end of March^ 44 b.c. He dared not even stop permanently in any one of his various country estates, but, wretched^ wandered from one of his villas to another nearly...
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