SELECT ORATIONS OF M.T. CICERO

by Yonge, Charles Duke; trans

Price: $17.50

[30 Day Return Guarantee]

[Ask bookseller a question]
[E-mail to a friend] [Shipping rates & speeds]

Description

NY:: Harper,, 1880. Hardcover; collector rubberstamp inside front cover; faded spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; a few small spots of light foxing, most in preliminary pp.; otherwise, condition good.. Charles Yonge (1812-91), classical scholar at Queens College in Belfast. ||| 28 orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar & writer--Against Catiline. In favor of--Murena, Sylla, Archias, Milo, Postumus, Marcellus, Ligarius, King Deiotarus. In Defense of--proposed Manilian Law; & First to Fourteenth Orations against M. Antonius (called Phillipics). ||| Cicero is ranked with Demosthenes & Edmund Burke as a great orator, though he could not uphold republican principles in the civil struggles that destroyed the Roman republic.