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CICERO: EPISTULAE AD FAMILIARES 2 VOLUMES; Volume I: 62-47 B. C. ; Volume II: 47-43 B. C.
1977réf. 40782Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Very minor creasing to first few pages of Vol. 1. Very faint edgewear to a couple of pages of Vol. 2. Vol 2 has a DJ in VG condition with a few small tears.; Vol. 1: 1977 541 pp. Isbn: 0521211522; Vol. 2: 1977 630 pp. Isbn: 0521211514; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 16 17; 1-2; 1171 pages; Professor Shackleton Bailey's edition of Cicero's letters to Atticus also published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series has been generally recognized as an outstanding achievement. Now Professor Shackleton Bailey presents his edition of the second major body of Cicero's correspondence - his letters to his friends. Unlike the Atticus volumes this edition contains no translation this will be published elsewhere which has made it possible to gather all the letters and commentary into only two volumes. The introduction which includes a reassessment of the manuscript tradition is followed by a completely revised text and apparatus criticus. The commentary covers many problems of text interpretation history prosopography and letter-chronology. Both volumes contain indexes. . 1977. Cambridge University Press hardcover
