#de amicitia

[pastellus]

Reading De Amicitia while knowing that Cicero was already old and basically retired when he wrote most of his treatises makes it feel like you're sitting with your grandpa and he's teaching you life lessons. Thank you, grandpa Cicero, for teaching me about friendship. You're so right; we should try to have meaningful friendships in our lives, and Scipio was a pretty cool guy.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

From the conversation with @catilinas last night:

1.

What shall we do with the Chair Caesar (as in, Caesar in the production where he is played by the chair)? Break him into pieces and assemble into something else multiple times, to please the ghost of M. Caelius Rufus!

2.

Cicero De amicitia: Friends are like furniture.

Cassius: Brutus, can you be a cupboard? I want to put something in you.

Cicero: Guess I'll die.

[smashwolfen]

Y'all know about old books?

I've had this tiny little book for years now, since about 2014-2015 when I got it at a goodwill, poor thing was stuck in between these giant cookbooks for God knows why.

Tiny leather covered book, still has a plastic sleeve on it, assuming from the time it was made, smaller than my hand by a lil bit. However this thing has a few things going for it. Not only does it have what I believe is pressed/stamped leather covering front, back and spine...

Not only does it have gold lined pages..

Sparkle sparkle

Its also as old as dirt!!!

This bad boy somehow survived 2 world wars and looks so damn nice like????

1898???

That's 123 years old as of 2021 like what?! WHY WERE YOU IN BEWTEEN COOKBOOKS SON HOW DID YOU SURVIVE?! And how come you were only 2 canadian dollars?! A TOONIE?! Goodwill don't know what the hell they got most days.

Okay now, the part where I would love to have some more knowledgeable book enthusiasts to help me if they could! This particular book i can't find any information on, more specifically because of its age, this edition is from 1898 but the copyright is from 1897

You'd think a quick Google search would clear things up sure, but any editions with this book date a few years later everytime, the furthest back i can get is only to 1906 from this specific company, and whom ever "The De Vinne Press." Is, assuming the printing place.

And an aside, it also has a signature in it too from a year after its initial date

Whoever this fine person is, looked like it was also 10 bucks at some point, meanwhile I got it for 2 bucks so that was there long before I got ahold of it. And I can't read this cursive that well but they look to be a doctor, so maybe this was a gift at some point?

Long winded story short, I'd just like to know more about this particular book, why I can't find older editions past 1906 and I cant even find a value on it. Any of you fine cretins of tumblr who live and breath antique books like to help me do some digging? I clearly can't get anything on my own past what I've posted here, I plan to take it to a family friend who runs an antique shop, but the catch is I already took this to a literal book man who's as old as the hills and has so many old books from even before this ones time and even HE couldn't find anything!

IM SO LOST AND WANNA KNOW MORE AAAAAAAAA

Any and all help is appreciated, even reblogs and mentions to those who would have a better chance at finding more out! Thank you to you all in advance for further findings! No matter what comes up this lil old book is sticking with me to the end!

[stay-magnetic]

[ Divitias alii praeponunt, bonam alii valetudinem, alii potentiam, alii honores, multi etiam voluptates. ]

< Les uns préfèrent la richesse; d'autres, la bonne santé; d'autres, la puissance; d'autres, les honneurs; beaucoup aussi les plaisirs. ><CIC.De amicitia>

[onlylove-here]

.. il somigliarsi concilia gli animi all'amicizia, i buoni amano i buoni e i buoni attraggono a sé i buoni, come se esistesse tra loro un vincolo di sangue. Nulla più della natura brama quel che le è simile, nulla più della natura lo attrae con maggior forza.

“De Amicitia” di Cicerone

[06andre24]

Chi guarda un vero amico, in realtà, è come se si guardasse in uno specchio

Cicerone

[molecoledigiorni]

Diffidate di chi vi chiama

“amica mia”

[terpsikeraunos]

In the first place, how can life be what Ennius calls 'the life worth living,' if it does not repose on the mutual goodwill of a friend? What is sweeter than to have someone with whom you may dare discuss anything as if you were communing with yourself? How could your enjoyment in times of prosperity be so great if you did not have someone whose joy in them would be equal to your own? Adversity would indeed be hard to bear, without him to whom the burden would be heavier even than to yourself.

Cicero, De Amicitia 22 (trans. William Armistead Falconer)