Excerpt from The Republic of Cicero: Translated From the Latin; And Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction<br><br>The imperfect manuscript, a translation of which is now presented to the American public, was discovered in the Library of the Vatican, by Professor Angelo Mai; a person of singular ingenuity in the detection of those Palimpsests whose contents were written upon ah cient writings partially erased. A fac simile of part of the mss. Accompanies this work. The Republic of Cicero was greatly cherished by those who lived in arid; near his times of which occasional evidences are found in the writings of antiquity. But the tyranny of the emperors bridled the Romans so soon after its appear ance, that Horace, Virgil, Seneca, Quintilian, Pliny, and even Tacitus, have not dared to praise it, lest they.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.