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   Roman Life in the
   Days of Cicero
   By the
   REV. ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A.

Author of "Stories from Homer"

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

New York

TO OCTAVIUS OGLE, IN REMEMBRANCE OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP THIS BOOK ISDEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. A ROMAN BOY

II. A ROMAN UNDERGRADUATE

III. IN THE DAYS OF THE DICTATOR

IV. A ROMAN MAGISTRATE

V. A GREAT ROMAN CAUSE

VI. COUNTRY LIFE

VII. A GREAT CONSPIRACY

VIII. CAESAR

IX. POMPEY

X. EXILE

XI. A BRAWL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XII. CATO, BRUTUS, AND PORCIA

XIII. A GOVERNOR IN HIS PROVINCE

XIV. ATTICUS

XV. ANTONY AND AUGUSTUS

PREFACE.

This book does not claim to be a life of Cicero or a history of the lastdays of the Roman Republic. Still less does it pretend to come intocomparison with such a work as Bekker's Gallus, in which on a slenderthread of narrative is hung a vast amount of facts relating to thesocial life of the Romans. I have tried to group round the centralfigure of Cicero various sketches of men and manners, and so to give myreaders some idea of what life actually was in Rome, and the provincesof Rome, during the first six decades—to speak roughly—of the firstcentury B.C. I speak of Cicero as the "central figure," not as judginghim to be the most important man of the time, but because it is fromhim, from his speeches and letters, that we chiefly derive theinformation of which I have here made use. Hence it follows that I give,not indeed a life of the great orator, but a sketch of his personalityand career. I have been obliged also to trespass on the domain ofhistory: speaking of Cicero, I was obliged to speak also of Caesar andof Pompey, of Cato and of Antony, and to give a narrative, which I havestriven to make as brief as possible, of their military achievements andpolitical action. I must apologize for seeming to speak dogmatically onsome questions which have been much disputed. It would have beenobviously inconsistent with the character of the book to give theopposing arguments; and my only course was to state simply conclusionswhich I had done my best to make correct.

I have to acknowledge my obligations to Marquardt's Privat-Leben derRomer, Mr. Capes' University Life in Ancient Athens, and Mr. Watson'sSelect Letters of Cicero, I have also made frequent use of Mr. AnthonyTrollope's Life of Cicero, a work full of sound sense, thoughcuriously deficient in scholarship.

The publishers and myself hope that the illustrations, giving as thereis good reason to believe they do the veritable likenesses of some ofthe chief actors in the scenes described, will have a special interest.It is not till we come down to comparatively recent times that we findart again lending the same aid to the understanding of history.

Some apology should perhaps be made for retaining the popular title ofone of the illustrations. The learned are, we believe, agreed that thestatue known as the "Dying Gladiator" does not represent a gladiator atall. Yet it seemed pedantic, in view of Byron's famous desc

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