CICERON, Marcus Tullius || BARRETT, Jean-Jacques de. Les Offices de Cicéron. 1768.

Second edition revised by Mr. de Barrett, in Latin and French.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) is one of the best-known authors of Roman antiquity and renowned for his intelligence and eloquence. Lawyer and statesman, he has written many political and philiosophic books as this treatise on ethics.
It is divided into three parts whose subjects are: Duty and Honest, Useful, and the comparison between both subjects. It was dedicated to the new generation of citizens destined to rule and perpetuate the Roman Republic.