Excerpt from De Amicitia: On Friendship Garb ofmanhood my fatherbrought me to Scaevola,3 that I might attend him, and thereafter, as much as was possible and permit ted, I remained at the old man's side. It thus hap pened that I was able to commit to memory many of his longer discourses as well as his brief and pithy remarks, and to devote myself to the in creasing of my own know ledge through his wisdom. When he died I attached myself to Scaevola,4 the Pontifex Maximus, whom I venture to call the most distinguished of our citi zens both for intellect and for integrity. But of him I will speak in anotherplace. I return now to the Augur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.