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THE LIFE OF CICERO BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

CHAPTER I
.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER II
.
HIS EDUCATION.
CHAPTER III
.
THE CONDITION OF ROME.
CHAPTER IV
.
HIS EARLY PLEADINGS.--SEXTUS ROSCIUS AMERINUS.--HIS
INCOME.
CHAPTER V
.
CICERO AS QUAESTOR.

CHAPTER VI
.
VERSES.
CHAPTER VII
.
CICERO AS AEDILE AND PRAETOR.
CHAPTER VIII
.
CICERO AS CONSUL.
CHAPTER IX
.
CATILINE.
CHAPTER X
.
CICERO AFTER HIS CONSULSHIP.
CHAPTER XI
.
THE TRIUMVIRATE.
CHAPTER XII
.
HIS EXILE.
* * * * *
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX A.
APPENDIX B.
APPENDIX C.
APPENDIX D.
APPENDIX E.

THE LIFE OF CICERO.

CHAPTER I
.
INTRODUCTION.
I am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a further
life of Cicero which I feel I may probably fail in justifying by any new
information; and on this account the enterprise, though it has been long
considered, has been postponed, so that it may be left for those who
come after me to burn or publish, as they may think proper; or, should
it appear during my life, I may have become callous, through age, to
criticism.
The project of my work was anterior to the life by Mr. Forsyth, and was
first suggested to me as I was reviewing the earlier volumes of Dean
Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire. In an article on the
Dean's work, prepared for one of the magazines of the day, I inserted
an apology for the character of Cicero, which was found to be too long
as an episode, and was discarded by me, not without regret. From that
time the subject has grown in my estimation till it has reached its
present dimensions.
I may say with truth that my book has sprung from love of the man, and
from a heartfelt admiration of his virtues and his conduct, as well as of
his gifts. I must acknowledge that in discussing his character with men
of letters, as I have been prone to do, I have found none quite to agree
with me His intellect they have admitted, and his industry; but his
patriotism they have doubted, his sincerity they have disputed, and his
courage they have denied. It might have become me to have been
silenced by their verdict; but I have rather been instigated to appeal to
the public, and to ask them to agree with me against my friends. It is
not only that Cicero has touched all matters of interest to men, and has
given a new grace to all that he has touched; that as an orator, a
rhetorician, an essayist, and a correspondent he was supreme; that as a
statesman he was honest, as an advocate fearless, and as a governor
pure; that he was a man whose intellectual part always dominated that
of the body; that in taste he was excellent, in thought both correct and
enterprising, and that in language he was perfect. All this has been

already so said of him by other biographers. Plutarch, who is as
familiar to us as though he had been English, and Middleton, who
thoroughly loved his subject, and latterly Mr. Forsyth, who has
struggled to be honest to him, might have sufficed as telling us so much
as that. But there was a humanity in Cicero, a something almost of
Christianity, a stepping forward out of the dead intellectualities