Book
54 BCE
De Re Publica
Cicero
Cicero's dialogue on the ideal constitution argues Rome's mixed government, balancing monarchic, aristocratic and democratic elements across its consuls, senate and assemblies, is the best-realised approximation of the ideal state.
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- The text is a ruin. Most of it was lost until 1819, when a palimpsest gave back about a quarter; the closing 'Dream of Scipio' survived separately because a commentator quoted it whole. Expect gaps mid-argument.
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