[3]
After publishing the works mentioned I finished
three volumes On the Nature of the Gods, which
contain a discussion of every question under that
head. With a view of simplifying and extending
the latter treatise I started to write the present
volume On Divination, to which I plan to add a
work on Fate; when that is done every phase of
this particular branch of philosophy will be sufficiently discussed. To this list of works must be
added the six volumes which I wrote while holding
the helm of state, entitled On the Republic—a weighty
subject, appropriate for philosophic discussion, and
one which has been most elaborately treated by
Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, and the entire Peripatetic school. What need is there to say anything
of my treatise On Consolation? For it is the source
of very great comfort to me and will, I think, be of
much help to others. I have also recently thrown
in that book On Old Age, which I sent my friend
Atticus; and, since it is by philosophy that a man
is made virtuous and strong, my Cato1 is especially
worthy of a place among the foregoing books.
1 The lost Laus Catonis, to which Caesar wrote a reply; cf. Ad Att. xii. 40.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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