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M. TULLI CICERONIS

LAELIUS

DE AMICITIA.

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M. TULLI CICERONIS

LAELIUS

DE AMICITIA.

EDITED FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

BY

JAMES S. REID, M.L.

FELLOW AND ASSISTANT TUTOR OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
EDITOR OF CICERO'S ACADEMICA, ETC.

EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRess.

STANFORD LIBRARY

Cambridge:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

London: CAMBRIDGE WAREHOUSE, 17, Paternoster Row.

Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.

Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS.

1879

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PREFACE.

THIS edition of the Laelius has been prepared on the same general plan as my editions of the speeches of Cicero for Archias and for Balbus, published a year since.

The special aim of the notes is the thorough examination of the Latinity of the dialogue, but the elucidation of the subject-matter has not been neglected. In arranging the text, I have tried to weigh for myself the evidence affecting every variation, however slight. In a few instances I have found it necessary to adopt emendations of my own. These will all be found duly noticed in an Appendix on the text, which also contains remarks on other textual difficulties which could not conveniently be mentioned in the notes. In the explanatory notes as well as in forming the text, while I have worked out my own views independently, and hope to have been able to contribute something to the explanation of the dialogue, I have also compared my own conclusions with those of the most prominent scholars who have edited or explained the treatise. In particular I have to own my great obligations to the very elaborate edition of Seyffert, on whose foundation every subsequent editor has largely built, and

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