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 PAGE 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: