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III. The Letters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2016
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‘To read through the volumes [of Cicero’s letters] . . . is in itself an education.’ None the less it is primarily as rich sources of information—and problems—about Cicero’s life and times that the letters have concerned scholars. They also stand apart from Cicero’s other writings in the importance and fascination of the textual problems they present. Thus we have recently had Shackleton Bailey’s prolegomena, and volumes of a new Oxford text. The Budé edition, which, like Tyrrell and Purser, arranges the letters in chronological order, continues to progress.
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