SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

On Duties · De Officiis

Cicero

Translated by Walter Miller

A father’s letter to his son on the honourable and the useful, and why they never truly conflict.

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  • Latin: ed. Walter Miller, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0474.phi055, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Walter Miller, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0474.phi055.perseus-eng1). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 11

  1. 1Book I · sections 1–32
  2. 2Book I · sections 33–64
  3. 3Book I · sections 65–97
  4. 4Book I · sections 98–130
  5. 5Book I · sections 131–161
  6. 6Book II · sections 1–36
  7. 7Book II · sections 37–68
  8. 8Book II · sections 69–89
  9. 9Book II · section 89 · 89
  10. 10Book II · section 89 · 89
  11. 11Book II · section 89 · 89