M.T. Ciceronis De oratore ad Q. fratrem dialogi, seu libri tres. Interpretatio ac notæ, quas in usum serenissimi Delphini edidit Jacobus Proust . hac editione auctæ prodeunt & emendatæ…

CICERO, Marcus Tullis PROUST, Jacques, ed. (1649-1694)

Published by Stephani Fletcher [1723], Oxford, 1723

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8vo (195 x 119mm). [6], 317pp., [23]. Portraits. Contemporary calf; (light occasional stains; calf torn to upper cover and spine somewhat chipped, corners bumped). Cicero s important classic and esteemed edition of Jacques Proust author of Diderot et L Encylopedie. Cicero s De oratore ("On the Orator") is a moral and political dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BCE. It is set in 91 BCE when Lucius Licinius Crassus died, just before a social war and civil war broke out between Marius and Sulla, and during which Marcus Antonius Orator, the other great orator of this dialogue, died. Cicero wrote De Oratore to describe the idyllic Marcus Antonius and imagine him as a philosophic and moral guide of the state. Seller Inventory # D2474

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Title: M.T. Ciceronis De oratore ad Q. fratrem ...

Publisher: Stephani Fletcher [1723], Oxford

Publication Date: 1723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good