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Excerpt from The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Vol. 1 This we find to be actually true in his account of Cicero's life, where, besides the particular mistakes that have been charged upon him by other writers, we see all the marks of haste, inaccu racy, and want of due information, from the poverty and perplexity of the whole performance. He huddles over Cicero's greatest acts in a summary and negligent manner, yet dwells upon his dreams and his jests, which, for the greatest part, were probably spurious; and, in the last scene of his life, 'which was of all the most glorious, when the whole councils of the empire, and the fate and liberty of Rome rested on his shoulders, there he is more particularly trifling and empty; where he had the fairest opportunity of displaying his character to advantage, as well as of illustrating a curious part of history, which has not been well explained by any writer though there are the amplest materials for it in Cicero's Letters and Phi lippie Orations, of which Plutarch appears to have made little or no use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.