This is an independent self-paced tutorial for adult learners with a strong background in Latin, including ordinarily my full curriculum of tutorials: WHEELOCK'S LATIN (Latin I-II), Ovid, Vergil, and Juvenal. Cicero's prose in this treatise, one of his most widely read, is often extremely challenging, hence the requirement for extensive prior reading experience.

This guided reading, like my other tutorials, is asynchronous and highly personalized; we will proceed one section at a time through the essay's 85 sections. The recommended texts are:

• Charles Bennett's edition, available here

• And the LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY edition + translation by W. A. Falconer, available here