Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 3, Books 5-7.9

The third volume of Dr Shackleton Bailey’s edition of the Atticus letters contains a revised version of the text first published in the Oxford Classical Texts in 1961. Like its predecessors, this volume contains a text and selective apparatus, a translation facing each page of text, a full commentary, and indexes.

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Foreword; Abbreviations; Text and translation; Commentary; Appendices; Indices; Maps.

‘Shackleton Bailey’s translation is, one need hardly say, extremely accurate. It serves as a most valuable aid to the understanding of the text and as a complement to the commentary in many passages of particular difficulty … Shackleton Bailey’s commentary may claim a place in the great tradition of commentaries on the Latin prose writers … It solves many problems, casts light on others which remain unsolved and removes a vast accumulation of traditional rubbish … The lucidity and economy of this commentary are admirable.’

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