Excerpt from Cicero Ten Orations and Selected Letters For the last forty years there has been a growing tendency to load the text-book Of a Latin author with matter about the author and his times. The numerous American and foreign editions Of selections from Cicero's orations have undoubtedly been very useful and have reflected much credit upon the dili gence and scholarship Of the editors; but they have all fallen Short Of the ideal text-book as a means for the preparation Of assigned lessons. Some Of them, furnishing an abundance Of bibliographical and other material for the teacher's use, have been admirable from the teacher's standpoint and should be in every Latin teacher's library. Others have had excellent pictorial illustrations but such meager commentary as to leave the student unpiloted amid the rich flow Of Cicero's eloquence. TO let the author, after a complete but moderate introduction, interpret himself through suggestions Of his real meaning, given in adequate English, has seemed to the editors Of this edition the proper principle upon which to make the text-book Of a Latin author for American schools. Cicero the man, and not Cicero the historical figure surrounded by people with little or no interest for us, has been our chief concern. The aim in making this edition has been helpfulness toward an appreciation Of Cicero and Of such Of his literary work as we have been able to include in this school text-book. Too great a display Of borrowed or original erudition will, we hope, not be found anywhere between its covers. 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.