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CICERO - G. C. Richards - Houghton Mifflin ($3). A prudent, patriotic, eloquent Roman genius, Marcus Tullius Cicero had the historical misfortune to live at a time when the more spectacular genius of Julius Caesar dwarfed all lesser men. Cicero's deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...
...most literary translation into Latin of the conversation between Marcus Tullius Cicero and Quinctus Cicero in William Savage Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" there is a $50 award. The selection to be translated includes everything from the opening of the conversation to the Words "remembering longer among...