Fovvre seuerall treatises of M. Tullius Cicero conteyninge his most learned and eloquente discourses of frendshippe: oldage: paradoxes: and Scipio his dreame. All turned out of Latine into English, by Thomas Newton.

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Fovvre seuerall treatises of M. Tullius Cicero conteyninge his most learned and eloquente discourses of frendshippe: oldage: paradoxes: and Scipio his dreame. All turned out of Latine into English, by Thomas Newton.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

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Imprinted at London :: In Fleetestreete neere to S. Dunstanes Churche, by Tho. Marshe. Cum priuilegio,

1577.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Righte Honora∣ble, his very good Lord, Fraūcis Earle of Bedford, Lord Russell, of the Noble order of the Garter Knight, and one of her Maiesties moste Honourable priuye Counsel: Tho. Nevvton vvisheth the fer∣nent zeale of God, vvith en∣crease of much Honor.
• The Booke of Freend∣shippe. Otherwise entituled, Lae∣lius: written dialoguewise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, vnto his very freende T. Pomponius Atticus.
  • The Preface.
  • dialogue
• book
  • The Preface.
  • dialogue
• treatise
  • The Preface.
  • The firste Paradoxe, wherein is proued, that nothing is good, but only that, which is honest.
  • The Seconde Paradoxe declaring that in whomsoeuer Ver∣tue is, in him there lacketh no¦thing els to the leading of an happy lyfe.
  • The Thirde Paradoxe, wherein according to the opinion of the Stoickes, hee proueth all faultes to bee equall.
  • The Fourth Paradoxe, wherein is proued, that all Fooles bee madde and distraught frō their right myndes: co∣uertly taunting Clo∣dius, and by him all others of like maners and conditions.
  • The Fyfte Paradoxe, wherein hee inueigheth against the in∣solencie & voluptuous liuing of Mar∣cus Antonius, and proueth all VVisemen to bee free: and al Fooles to bee Slaues and Bondmen.
  • The Syxte & laste Pa∣radoxe, wherein hee proueth none to be Rych but only wyse & Vertuous Mē: priuily nipping Marcus Crassus, who said, that none was worthy to haue the name of Rich, vnlesse with his Re∣uenues, hee were able to fur∣nish and mainteine an Armye.
• A Philosophicall Dis∣course of M. T. Cicero: entituled, SCIPIO HIS Dreame.
• The Table
• colophon