The Sources of Plutarch's Life of Cicero (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sources of Plutarch's Life of Cicero I. The results of source investigations have but rarely met with an acquiescence at all commensurate with the labor, the acumen, and the learning so often expended upon them. This is due to several causes. In the first place, the entire or partial loss of the original or earlier authorities naturally gives a more or less wide latitude to the constructive imagi nation, and, in consequence, difierent conclusions are often drawn from the same concrete material In the second place, any one who has even superficially examined the contributions in the field of source research must needs have observed that scholars have, with few laudable exceptions, failed to ascertain at the very outset, as' far as this is still possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.