How long does it take to read The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends?
The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends by Cicero takes about 7 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1519. 410 pages, about 112,750 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
CICEREO was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us. Collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other Italian humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled: nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a momentous period in Roman history, years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic. The 435 letters collected here represent Ciceros correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of twenty years, from 62 BC, when Ciceros political career was at its peak, to 43, the year he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony. They range widely in substance and style, from official dispatches and semi-public letters of political importance to casual notes that chat with close friends about travels and projects, domestic pleasures and books, and questions currently debated. This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Letters to Friends, in three volumes brings together D.R. Shackleton Baileys standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of his much admired translation first published by Penguin Books. This authoritative edition complements the new Loeb edition of Ciceros Letters to Atticus, also translated by Shackleton Bailey.
Subjects: Authors, Latin, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation, Latin Authors, Rome, Statesmen
