Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by CHARLES ANTHON,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

то

HIS FRIEND,

J. N. REYNOLDS, ESQ.

AS

A TESTIMONIAL OF REGARD

FOR

TALENT, INTEGRITY, AND DECISION OF CHARACTER,

THIS WORK IS SINCERELY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE EDITOR.

PREFACE.

THE present edition of Cicero contains the four orations against Catiline, together with those for Archias, Marcellus, the Manilian Law, and Murena. In making this selection, the editor has been guided by the statutes of Columbia College, which require all the orations that have just been enumerated, with the exception of the last two, to be read by candidates for admission into the Freshman Class. As the statutes of other colleges differ, in this respect, but little from our own, and as the orations against Catiline are almost universally read, it is hoped that the work here presented to the public will prove a useful auxiliary to the youth of our country in general. The orations for the Manilian Law and for Murena have been added as favourable specimens of Cicero's more elaborate