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Summary:

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In Cicero's political speeches and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the important part he played in the turmoil of the time. Although Cicero's oratory is well attested--of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part--the sixteen speeches that survive only in quotations nevertheless fill gaps in our knowledge. These speeches attracted the interest of later authors, particularly Asconius and Quintilian, for their exemplary content, oratorical strategies, or use of language, failing to survive entire not because they were inferior in quality or interest but due to factors contingent on the way Cicero's speeches were read, circulated, and evaluated in (especially late) antiquity. The fragmentary speeches fall, like Cicero's career in general, into three periods: the preconsular, the consular, and the postconsular, and here are presented chronologically, numbered continuously, and their fragments arranged, insofar as possible, in the order in which they would have occurred, followed by unplaced quotations. Each speech receives an introduction and ample notation. This edition, which completes the Loeb classical library edition of Cicero, includes all speeches with attested fragments, together with testimonia. Based upon Crawford's edition of 1994, the sources have been examined afresh, and newer source-editions substituted where appropriate."-- [Dust jacket]

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• General introduction. Cicero's fragmentary speeches ; The quoting authors ; Problematic cases ; Plan of this edition ; A note on the translation ; Brackets and symbols
• Abbreviations
• The speeches. On behalf of L. Varenus ; When he departed Lilybaeum as quaestor ; On behalf of P. Oppius ; On C. Manilius ; On behalf of Cornelius I-II (testimonia) ; On behalf of Cornelius I ; On behalf of Cornelius II ; On King Ptolemy ; On behalf of C. Fundanius ; In a white toga ; On behalf of Q. Gallius ; On Otho ; On the sons of the proscribed ; Against Q. Metellus' speech in a public meeting ; Against Clodius and Curio ; Interrogation about Milo's debt ; On behalf of Milo (speech taken down) ; Unplaced fragments
• Appendix: Outline of On behalf of Cornelius I
• Concordances.

Author/Creator:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius , author

Contributors:

Crawford, Jane W. , editor, translator

Dyck, Andrew R. (Andrew Roy), 1947- , editor, translator

Languages:

English
Latin
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Language Notes:

Text chiefly in Latin and some Ancient Greek with English translation on facing pages; introductory material and notes in English.

Main Work:

Fragmentary speeches [by Cicero, M.T.]

Included Works:

Speeches [of Cicero, M.T.] > Fragments (English; (Crawford and Dyck))

Speeches [of Cicero, M.T.] > Fragments (Latin; (Crawford and Dyck))

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Fragmentary speeches [by Cicero, M.T.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2024 — OCLC Number 1428068897)

Related Series:

Works [of Cicero, M.T.] (Complete); [volume] 30 (English; (Loeb classical library))

Works [of Cicero, M.T.] (Complete); [volume] 30 (Latin; (Loeb classical library))

Loeb classical library; [volume] 556

Subjects:

Rome — Politics and government — 265-30 B.C. — Sources

Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Speeches (Complete)

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin — History and criticism

Genres:

Speeches

Primary sources

General Notes:

"General bibliography": pages xli-lxxi.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

lxxi, 432 pages ; 17 cm.

Call Numbers:

PA6283 .A2 2024

ISBNs:

9780674997622 (hardcover)
067499762X (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023051343

OCLC Numbers:

1396058873