Cicero (Volume 3); The Orations Translated by Duncan, the Offices by Cockman, and the Cato and Laelius by Melmoth - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE OFFICES. TRANSLATED By THOMAS COCK MAN, D.D. LITE MASTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. OFFICES BOOK I. Cicero exhorts his son, a young student at Athens, not to forget his Latin, though he was in a Greek University; but to mix the studies of both those languages, and also learn to write both as a philosopher and an orator. Dear Son Marcus, Chap. I. Though after a year's study under Cratippus,* and that at such a place as Athens, you ought to have abundantly furnished yourself with knowledge in the doctrines and rules of philosophy; having had the advantage of so eminent a master to supply you with learning, and a city that affords you such excellent examples; yet I should think it convenient for you (which is a method I took for my own improvement) always to mingle some Latin with your Greek, in the studies of eloquence, as well as philosophy, that you may be equally perfect in both those ways of writing, and make yourself master of either language: for the furtherance of which, I am apt to imagine, I have done no inconsiderable service to our countrymen; so that not only those who do not understand Greek; but even the learned themselves will confess, that by reading my works, they have mended their styles, and somewhat improved their reason and judgments.--Wherefore I am willing that you should learn indeed of Cratippus, the greatest philosopher of the present age, and learn of him too as long as you desire it; and so long I think it is your duty to desire it, as you find yourself sufficiently benefited by it: but withal, I would have you to read my writings, which very little differ from those of the Peripatetics; for both we and they profess ourselves followers, not of Socrates only, but of Plato likewise. As for the matters contained in them, use your o...