[Illustration: _Specimen palimpsesti vaticani._ _Imbert’s Lithographic Facsimile._ ] THE REPUBLIC OF CICERO, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN; AND ACCOMPANIED WITH A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. BY G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, ESQ. FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; OF THE LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW-YORK, &C. &C. &C. [Illustration] NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY G. & C. CARVILL, 108 BROADWAY. 1829. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, ss. Be it remembered, that on the 23d day of January, A. D. 1829, in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, G. & C. Carvill, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: “The Republic of Cicero, translated from the Latin; and accompanied with a Critical and Historical Introduction. By G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esq., Fellow of the Geological Society of London; of the American Philosophical Society; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York, &c. &c. &c.” In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, “An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;” and also, to an Act, entitled, “An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” FRED. I. BETTS, _Clerk of the Southern District of New-York_. ERRATA. INTRODUCTION, p. 22, line 12, dele “then.” DO. p. 27, line 16, for “requires,” read “require.” Sleight & George, Printers, Jamaica, L. I. TO RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, ESQ. F. R. S., F. G. S., &c. &c. &c. I dedicate these pages to you, my dear MURCHISON, that you may have a renewed assurance of my great esteem and friendship for you. I should have had a livelier satisfaction in doing so, if the part I have had in the production of them, were more worthy of your refined taste. I hope to offer some compensation, however, in the assurance, that you will find in them many congenial opinions and principles.