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Excerpt from The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero In preparing the present volume, the well-known history compiled by F abricius, and the Fasti Hellenici of Mr. Fynes Clinton, have been taken as the best, as well as the most comprehensive, guides for the succession and order of events. The assistance afforded by the classical historians, and the remarks of various commen taters, has not been neglected, and it will be seen that the recent discoveries of Maio have furnished a few, by no means unimportant, particulars. At the same time, Wherever it has been found necessary, the Life of Cicero by Middleton has been respectfully consulted, as well as the notes of Melmoth to his excellent translation of Cicero's Epistles. So ample and easily accessible, however, are the materials for a biography such as the present, that any credit on the score of research is entirely out of the question. Nor does the Author, in the least degree, pretend to such a merit his principal labour, in this instance, has necessarily consisted in selection, not in discovery - rather in compressing the immense stock of materials at hand, than in indulging the ambition, in his case wholly unwarrantable, of adding information which the curiosity of the most eminent and unwearied scholars has for ages failed to detect. 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.