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    Laelius de Amicitia (or simply De Amicitia) is a treatise on friendship (amicitia) by the Roman statesman and author Marcus Tullius Cicero, written in...
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  • bonds of amicitia was thus highly formal. The amici Augusti (friends of Augustus) formed the court in imperial times. Cicero, Laelius de amicitia Client...
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    de Senectute (Cato the Elder on Old Age) (44 BC) Laelius de Amicitia (Laelius on Friendship) (44 BC) De Officiis (On Duties) Cicero's letters to and from...
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  • humanist and reformer Laelius de Amicitia, a philosophical dialog by Cicero on friendship, which is based on the second Gaius Laelius and his relationships...
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    slope" dates back at least to Cicero's essay Laelius de Amicitia (XII.41). The title character Gaius Laelius Sapiens uses the metaphor to describe the decline...
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  • friend since childhood, Cicero dedicated his treatise, Laelius de Amicitia (Latin for 'Laelius on Friendship'), to Atticus. Their correspondence, often...
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    Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, Vol. IX, p. 70 M. Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, ยง87 Armstrong, A. Macc. "Timon of Athens - A Legendary Figure?"...
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    Broughton, vol. I, pp. 499, 500. Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, 8, c. 1, Brutus, c. 26, 35, De Finibus, i. 3, De Oratore, i. 17, ii. 70, Philippicae, viii...
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    122 BC. Follower of Stoicism, historian and orator. Son-in-law to Laelius. Laelius, Gaius: Close friend and associate of Scipio, Consul in 140 BC, promoter...
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  • 23, De Republica i. 14, 15, De Senectute, 14, Laelius de Amicitia, 27, De Officiis, i. 6. Cicero, De Oratore, i. 53, Brutus, 23, Laelius de Amicitia, 2...
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