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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE)

23 chapters, about 155,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION. 200 words
2. ON THE CONTEMPT OF DEATH. 18,700 words
3. ON BEARING PAIN. 8,100 words
4. ON GRIEF OF MIND. 12,700 words
5. BOOK IV. 11,800 words
6. BOOK V. 16,500 words
7. BOOK I. 16,900 words
8. BOOK II. 13,100 words
9. XLII. The aspect of those stars is the more admirable, because, 400 words
10. XLIV. Perseus is described as placed at the feet of Andromeda: 6,800 words
11. BOOK III. 12,300 words
12. PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. 300 words
13. BOOK I. 11,400 words
14. BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR. 100 words
15. BOOK II. 9,200 words
16. BY THE ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR. 400 words
17. BOOK III. 6,900 words
18. FRAGMENTS. 800 words
19. FRAGMENTS. 1,900 words
20. I. Ennius has told us-- 800 words
21. INTRODUCTION TO THE SIXTH BOOK. 200 words
22. SCIPIO'S DREAM. 4,500 words
23. FOOTNOTES: 1,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Antigone
• Deity
• Divinity
• Melancholia
• Narcissism
• Pain
• Portia (The Merchant of Venice)
• Syrians

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