On government

Author(s)

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Grant, Michael

Bibliographic Information

On government

Cicero ; translated by Michael Grant

（Penguin classics）

Penguin, 1993

• : pbk

Note

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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Details

• NCID: BA22001951
• ISBN:
  • 0140445951
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: 421 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JC81
  • DC20 : 320.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Political science -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646