[12]. XIV. 13b.
[13]. XIV. 13.
[14]. XIV. 15.
[15]. XVI. 7.
[16]. XVI. 9 and 11
is rather surprised to find that he was still working at his philosophical treatises, writing the De Officiis to dedicate to his son,[[17]] and even eager to turn to history at the suggestion of Atticus.[[18]] Such is the last glimpse we get of him in the Letters to Atticus. Shortly afterwards he returned to Rome, and for some six months led the senatorial party in its opposition to Antony; but, when Octavian too turned against the party and the struggle became hopeless, he retired to Tusculum, where he lived until he was proscribed by the Triumvirs early in December. Then he contemplated flight to Greece, but was killed at Astura before he had succeeded in leaving Italy.
[17]. XVI. 11.
[18]. XVI. 13b.
I must again acknowledge my indebtedness in preparing the translation to Tyrrell's edition of the Letters and to Shuckburgh's translation, from both of which I have "conveyed" many a phrase. The text is as usual based on the Teubner edition, and textual notes have been mainly confined to passages where a reading not found in that edition was adopted. In those notes the following abbreviations are used:—
M = the Codex Mediceus 49, 18, written in the year 1389 A.D., and now preserved in the Laurentian Library at Florence. M1 denotes the reading of the first hand, and M2 that of a reviser.