De Officiis (On Duties)
Read III.1 before treating the leisure saying as Cicero’s personal motto: he reports Scipio’s remark through Cato, and contrasts it with his own enforced withdrawal. Miller’s English says less idle where the anthology says less at leisure. Then read I.42, where generosity that injures another person is criticised; the anthology and Miller use different wording. The Latin/English layout supports comparison but does not identify the anthology translator. Modern life dates come from the separate checked biography, not the catalogue’s differing authority dates.
Who it suits
Readers seeking the speaker, argument and English translation around familiar Roman anthology excerpts.
Reading experience
Moderate; classical names, historical assumptions and older translated prose. The Cicero edition also supplies Latin. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1913; Latin with Walter Miller English translation
- Language
- Latin and English
- Translator
- Walter Miller
- Publisher
- William Heinemann / The Macmillan Co.
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Catalogue metadata checked 2026-10-05. Descriptions and reading guidance are original Edsverb editorial text. A related-reading link does not establish that an archive saying occurs in this edition.