CICERO. ᏢᎪᎡᎢ III. THE TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS. WITH ENGLISH NOTES, TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF G. TISCHER BY THE REV. R. B. PAUL, M.A. LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD; EDITED BY THE REV. THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A. RECTOR OF LYNDON, AND LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1851. 294.9 129 PREFACE. DR. TISCHER'S edition of the Tusculan Disputations is included in Haupt and Sauppe's "Collection of Greek and Roman Authors with German Notes." It will be found a very useful edition, the remarks being clearly and accurately expressed, and the amount of them very judiciously proportioned to the real wants of the student. T. K. A. June 6, 1851. THE TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS. BOOK I. I. QUUM defensionum laboribus senatoriisque mune- 1 ribus aut omnino aut magna ex parte essem aliquando liberatus, retuli me, Brute, te hortante maxime ad ea studia, quæ, retenta animo, remissa temporibus, longo intervallo intermissa, revocavi; et quum omnium artium, quæ ad rectam vivendi viam pertinerent, ratio et disciplina studio sapientiæ, quæ philosophia dicitur, contineretur, hoc mihi Latinis litteris illustrandum putavi: non quia philosophia Græcis et litteris et doctoribus percipi non posset, sed meum semper judicium fuit, omnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Græcos, aut accepta ab illis fecisse meliora, quæ quidem digna statuissent, in quibus elaborarent. Nam mores 2 et instituta vitæ resque domesticas ac familiares nos profecto et melius tuemur et lautius; rem vero publicam nostri majores certe melioribus temperaverunt et institutis et legibus. Quid loquar de re militari? in qua quum virtute nostri multum valuerunt, tum plus etiam disciplina. Jam illa, quæ natura, non litteris assecuti sunt, neque cum Græcia neque ulla cum gente sunt conferenda. Quæ enim tanta gravitas, quæ tanta constantia, magnitudo animi, probitas, fides, quæ tam ex B |