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PRAEFATIO EDITIONIS PRIMAE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

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Duo sunt, opinor, quae lectores a me hoc loco requirent aut, si non requirent ipsi, rogandi mihi sunt, ut benevolo animo et attento accipiant. Nam primum dicendum est de horum librorum, quos Cicero de finibus bonorum et malorum scripsit, emendatione et enarratione et universae operae a me in iis positae ratio sic explicanda, ut, quae in commentariis disperse posita sunt, ea ad suas causas generatim revocata et intellegi plenius et iudicari rectius possint. Quo loco etiam illud efficere conabor, ut libertas quaedam et simplicitas iudicii et orationis, a qua ne hic quidem discedam, merito et necessario adhibita esse videatur. Deinde, quae de Ciceroniani operis forma atque descriptione scitu digna videbuntur neque in commentariis aut per excursus exposita, comprehendam et ab iis ad ipsos libros lectores mittam. Sed prior illa disputatio, cuius magna pars apparatus critici explicatione continebitur, cum sua natura maiorem necessitatem habeat quam delectationem in rebus minutis per ambages persequendis, tum molestior fit, quod plus verborum consumendum est in eorum codicum commemoratione, quos parum novimus, quam in eorum, quorum plenus usus concessus est. Itaque deprecor, ne mea existimetur culpa, quae superiorum est.

1. Si cui hoc negotii datum sit iudici, ut, cum, quid aliquando ab aliquo dictum sit, multi non satis constanter narrent, reperiat, quid in ea re verum sit, is, si prudens sit, non solum hoc spectet in testibus audiendis, quam quisque per se ipse fidei opinionem afferat, sed ante omnia quaerendum sibi putet, quis a quo audierit, ut sic magnam et inconditam testium turbam ad paucos et certos redigat, a quibus ceteri rem acceperint; cum autem eos invenerit, et illos alteros neglegat et hos quasi primi ordinis testes sic comparet contendatque, ut, quantam quisque sequentium multitudinem trahat, nihil ad rem pertinere iudicet.

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Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
Libri Quinque
, pp. vii - lxvii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1839

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