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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge
Francis W. Halsey

Release Date: May 28, 2007 [EBook #21629]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MARCUS AURELIUS]

[Illustration: CAESAR]

[Illustration: CICERO]

[Illustration: SENECA]

THE BEST

_of the_

WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE

_Editor-in-Chief_

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

_Associate Editor_

With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.

IN TEN VOLUMES

Vol. II

ROME

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

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The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. II

ROME

234 B.C.--180 A.D.

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CONTENTS

VOL. II--ROME

CATO THE CENSOR--(Born in 234 B.C., died in 149.)

Of Work on a Roman Farm. (From "De Re Rustica." Translated by Dr. E.
Wilson)

CICERO--(Born in 106 B.C., assassinated in 43.)

I The Blessings of Old Age.
(From the "Cato Major." Translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds)

II On the Death of His Daughter Tullia. (A letter to Sulpicius)

III Of Brave and Elevated Spirits.
(From Bo