CONTENTS
Preface
INTRODUCTION
PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Notes
Appendix
Index
Cicero's great polemic against Antony, a literary masterpiece,
is here made available to Latin students early in their reading
programme and to students of classical civilisation. The introduction
to this edition deals with the historical setting, Roman rhetoric
and Cicero's style while the notes are mainly literary; not historical.
Attention is paid to Cicero's use of the devices and techniques
of rhetoric, and the variety of tones by which he sustains his
attack on Antony without ever losing the interest of the reader.
The notes also draw attention to the rhythms of the Latin and
to the clausulae.
W.K. Lacey is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Aukland, New Zealand. Previously Fellow of St Catharine's College and University Lecturer in Classics, Cambridge. Author of Res Publica (with B.W.J.G. Wilson) and Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic as well as articles in various Journals.
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