ADVERTISEMENT. THE following treatises are two of the most valuable pieces of the moral kind, that have been tranfmitted to us from the antients. The fubject upon which "home (as Lord Bacon fays of "his own effays) to every man's bufinefs and bofom :" and the noble principles they inculcate are Supported and enforced with all the advantage. that elegance of genius can give to truth of fentiment. It was thought, therefore, that an attempt to introduce them to the acquaintance of the Englifh reader, in a manner not altogether unworthy of the originals, would be no useless employment of the the tranflator's leifure. To this end, he has endeavoured to purfue the fame method, in conveying the fenfe of his great author, as Cicero himself obferved when he deigned to be engaged in an office of the fame nature: Non verbum pro verbo neceffe habui reddere, fed genus omnium verborum vimque fervavi. Non enim ea annumerare lectori putavi oportere, fed tamquam appendere*. * Cic de opt. gen. Orat. 5. 2 This |