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Hence I have given such letters as refer to his family and personal friends, their misunderstandings and reconciliations, his studies and his literary preferences, the pleasures and drawbacks of country and suburban life, his ailments and those of his friends, his tastes in art, his views about public shows and combats between men and beasts, his criticism on Lucretius, his journey to his province. We shall see him complaining to Atticus of the ingratitude of his freedman the Greek Dionysius, and Tigellius the Sardinian musician, and excusing himself for having thoroughly enjoyed a dinner at the house of Volumnius, though Cytheris reclined opposite to him. We may perhaps smile when he discusses the suitability of a certain lady to be the successor of the divorced Terentia, adding, She is as ugly a woman as I ever saw;when he complains to Atticus (xv. 15) of the insolence of a courtier of Cleopatra s, after it was evident that that lady had failed in her attempt to fascinate Cicero; and when he tells Trebatius how on going home from dining with him, though bene potvs, he looked up a law point which they had been discussing, and foimd that he was in the right. We shall escape all those letters which discuss, in wearying detail, the fears and hopes of men who were candidates for the consulship nearly two thousand years ago, the recurrence of which topic is as tiresome as the gout in the letters of Walpole.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing