The Epistles of M.T. Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero: with the Latin Text on the opposite page, and English Notes to each Epistle. Together with a Prefatory Dissertation, In which the Authority of the said Epistles is vindicated, and all the Objections of the Revd. Mr. Tunstall particularly considered and confuted. By Conyers Middleton, D.D. Principal Library Keeper of the University of Cambridge.
London. Printed for Richard Manby, M. DCC. XLIII. (1743). 8vo. 19.6cm, cxxvii (Preface), [1],195, [1] (Printer's adverts), in contemporary full calf, real raised bands, board edges worm, spine dull, upper cover loose, one gathering loose, wanting preliminary blank leaf, text very good, binding good only (ds1). Item #41593
~ Cicero was a skilled writer, orator and politician whose career spanned intellectual and political pursuits, making him an influential and notable figure in Roman history. He was a devotee of philosophy, and translated works from the Greek schools into Latin. Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 B. C.) was the Roman senator who was part of the group who assassinated Julius Caesar. In his letters to Brutus, Cicero describes the fractured political scene in Rome around 42 B. C., before Brutus returned from exile to defeat Octavian at the First Battle of Philippi. Conyers Middleton was born in Yorkshire, England and educated at Cambridge. He was called to the cloth for a short while, until marrying well enough to pursue a life of scholarship. Middleton was chiefly known for his controversial tracts responding to statements about him made by his life-long nemesis, Richard Bentley, a fellow at Cambridge. Middleton wrote a respectable biography of Cicero, but also published works on library administration, medicine and church ceremonies, all of which generated considerable debate.
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