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Excerpt from Cicero and His Friends: A Study of Roman Society in the Time of Caesar Severe judgments on Cicero in modern times, 22 i. Circumstances which determined Cicero's political attitude. Birth, philosophical ideas, character, 24 u. 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, 5! 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. 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.