Description: Cicero's letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.
Brief description: D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: The collections of Cicero's correspondence are of undeniable importance in illuminating the Roman world, and Shackleton Bailey's editions of them well deserve their definitive status.--Rex Stem "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"