On government
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On government
(Penguin classics)
Penguin, 1993
- : pbk
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Translated from the Latin
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic's most enlightened thinker.
Table of Contents
- "Against Verres" (II,5): how not to govern a province
- "For Murena" - when to sacrifice a principle
- "For Balbus" - the admission of foreigners to citizenship
- "On the state" (III) - the ideal form of government
- (V,VI) the good statesman
- "On Laws" (III) - how to run the ideal government
- the "Brutus" - the importance of oratory
- the "Philippics" (IV), V, X) - against rule by one man. Appendices some of the arguments used in "For Balbus"
- minor orators mentioned in the "Brutus".
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