ALSO, TREATISES ON
THE NATURE OF THE GODS,
AND ON
THE COMMONWEALTH.
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The greater portion of the Republic was previously translated by FrancisBarham, Esq., and published in 1841. Although ably performed, it was notsufficiently close for the purpose of the “Classical Library,” and wastherefore placed in the hands of the present editor for revision, aswell as for collation with recent texts. This has occasioned materialalterations and additions.
The treatise “On the Nature of the Gods” is a revision of that usuallyascribed to the celebrated Benjamin Franklin.
In the year a.u.c. 708, and the sixty-second year of Cicero’s age, hisdaughter, Tullia, died in childbed; and her loss afflicted Cicero tosuch a degree that he abandoned all public business, and, leaving thecity, retired to Asterra, which was a country house that he had nearAntium; where, after a while, he devoted himself to philosophicalstudies, and, besides other works, he published his Treatise de Finibus,and also this treatise called the Tusculan Disputations, of whichMiddleton gives this concise description:
“The first book teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death, and tolook upon it as a blessing rather than an evil;
“The second, to support pain and affliction with a manly fortitude;
“The third, to appease all our complaints and uneasinesses under theaccidents of life;
“The fourth, to moderate all our other passions;
“And the fifth explains the sufficiency of virtue to make men happy.”
It was his custom