Chapter I: Front Matter

CICERO
AND HIS FRIENDS
_A STUDY OF ROMAN SOCIETY IN THE TIME OF CAESAR_

BY
GASTON BOISSIER
OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY

TRANSLATED, WITH AN INDEX AND TABLE OF CONTENTS, BY
ADNAH DAVID JONES

_THIRD EDITION_

LONDON
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION:

CICERO’S LETTERS 1
Importance of private correspondence in ancient times.
Characteristics of Cicero’s letters, 1

CICERO IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE:

I. PUBLIC LIFE 22
Severe judgments on Cicero in modern times, 22
i. Circumstances which determined Cicero’s political
attitude. Birth, philosophical ideas, character, 24
ii. Cicero’s political career. An opponent at first of the
aristocracy, 36. Attempts to form a middle party, 46.
The knights, 47. Finally joins the aristocratic party,
51
iii. Judgment on Cicero should be from the point of view of
his contemporaries, 51. Corrupt state of the Roman
people, 64
iv. Cicero’s work for the Republican party after the death
of Caesar, 69. His death, 77

II. PRIVATE LIFE 79
i. Sources of his wealth, 79
ii. His married life, 89
iii. His children, 100
iv. His relations to his slaves, 108. His clients, 113.
Rabirius, 116

ATTICUS 123

i. His reasons for not entering public life, 124. His life
at Athens, 127. His life in Rome, 132
ii. His character in private life, 134
iii. His character in public life, 147

CAELIUS:

THE ROMAN YOUTH IN THE TIME OF CAESAR 159
i. Family and education of Caelius, 160. Influence of women
at Rome, 163. Clodia, 166
ii. Character of Caelius, 176. Joins Caesar’s party, 184
iii. Caesar had no genuine friends, 191. Reasons of Caelius’
enmity to him, 197. His death, 206

CAESAR AND CICERO: