CHASE AND STUART'S CLASSICAL SERIES.

M. TULLII CICERONIS

CATO MAJOR DE SENECTUTE,

LAELIUS DE AMICITIA.

With Explanatory Notes.

BY

E. P. CROWELL,

MOORE PROFESSOR OF LATIN,

AND

H. B. RICHARDSON,

INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN,

IN AMHERST COLLEGE.

PHILADELPHIA:

ELDREDGE & BROTHER,

17 North Seventh Street.

1872.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

ELDREDGE & BROTHER,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

PREFACE.

HE text of this edition of the De Senectute and De

THE

Amicitia is that of Baiter, in the Tauchnitz series of Cicero's works edited by Baiter and Kayser, and published in 1864, the merits of which are well known. With this have been carefully compared the various readings given in the Annotatio Critica of that work, and the text of Orelli's edition revised since his death by Halm (Zurich, 1861). In only a very few instances, however, has the reading of Baiter been exchanged for any other; while in all cases in which there is any important difference, the readings of other critical authorities have been cited in the Notes.

In conformity with the general plan of this series of classical text-books, the chief design of the Notes is to furnish the pupil with such assistance in understanding the language and the thought of the author, as is actually needed at that stage of study at which these essays are usually read. In the work of preparing them, free use has been made of several German and English commentaries, as well as of other works, of which a full list is given on page 70, and to each of which credit is given in the Notes.

To suit the preferences of teachers for different grammars, parallel references to the five manuals in use in

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
ELDREDGE & BROTHER,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

PREFACE.

HE text of this edition of the De Senectute and De

THE

Amicitia is that of Baiter, in the Tauchnitz series of Cicero's works edited by Baiter and Kayser, and published in 1864, the merits of which are well known. With this have been carefully compared the various readings given in the Annotatio Critica of that work, and the text of Orelli's edition revised since his death by Halm (Zurich, 1861). In only a very few instances, however, has the reading of Baiter been exchanged for any other; while in all cases in which there is any important difference, the readings of other critical authorities have been cited in the Notes.

In conformity with the general plan of this series of classical text-books, the chief design of the Notes is to furnish the pupil with such assistance in understanding the language and the thought of the author, as is actually needed at that stage of study at which these essays are usually read. In the work of preparing them, free use has been made of several German and English commentaries, as well as of other works, of which a full list is given on page 70, and to each of which credit is given in the Notes.

To suit the preferences of teac mars, parallel references to the

different gramanuals in use in