Philosophical dialogue · 1853
Tusculan Disputations
Five books on death, pain, grief, the passions and the happy life
Translated by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero, in 45 BC, recounts five days of conversation at his villa near Tusculum, in which he argues against a pupil on the great questions of the philosophical life: why death is not an evil, how pain may be borne, how grief and the other passions of the mind may be cured, and why virtue alone suffices for a happy life. The speaker's verse quotations from Ennius, Homer, the tragedians and others are given in Yonge's English renderings.
Contents · 5 parts