Lucius Manlius Torquatus (praetor 49 BC)

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I have finished the five books De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, so as to give the Epicurean doctrine to Lucius Torquatus.

Cicero [20]

De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the ends of good and evil –De Finibus) is a philosophical work by the Roman orator, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. It consists of five books, in which Cicero explains the philosophical views of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Platonism. Torquatus was a leading epicurean and was noted by Cicero for his knowledge of Greek literature and his breadth of learning. He was also a friend of Marcus Junius Brutus to whom the book was dedicated. (And who was shortly to be one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.) He was portrayed by Cicero in the first two books of De Finibus as a spokesman advocating Epicurean ethics. [21] [22]

In the first book he [Cicero] attacks the doctrines of the Epicurean school, and Torquatus defends them, alleging that they had been generally misunderstood; and in the second book Cicero enumerates the chief arguments with which the Stoics assailed them. [23]

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The work was written in 45, after Torquatus' death, but the debate is set in 50. [25]

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  1. ↑ Broughton, p. 134.
  2. ↑ Anthon & Smith, p. 903.
  3. ↑ Holland 2004, pp. 202–210.
  4. ↑ Anthon & Smith, p. 903; Holmes I, p. 445.
  5. ↑ Cassius Dio, 36.44.3.
  6. ↑ Sallust, 18.2.
  7. ↑ Holmes I, p. 445.
  8. ↑ Holmes I, p. 482.
  9. ↑ Cicero, Pro Sulla, 6.
  10. ↑ Suetonius, Julius 28. Archived 2012-05-30 at archive.today
  11. ↑ Broughton, p. 256; Anthon & Smith, p. 903.
  12. ↑ Anthon & Smith, p. 903; Broughton, p. 276.
  13. ↑ Holmes III, p. 119–120; Anthon & Smith, p. 903.
  14. ↑ Broughton, p. 276.
  15. ↑ Julius Caesar, The Civil War, 3.31–69.
  16. ↑ Sheppard.
  17. ↑ Broughton, p. 289.
  18. ↑ Syme, p. 245.
  19. ↑ Broughton, p. 296; Anthon & Smith, p. 903.
  20. ↑ Yonge.
  21. ↑ Anthon & Smith, p. 903.
  22. ↑ Yonge.
  23. ↑ Yonge.
  24. ↑ Smith 2005, p. 1165.
  25. ↑ Yonge.

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Lucius Manlius Torquatus
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January –December 49 BC