Treatise on the Laws

As a companion work to the Republic, Cicero wrote the ''Treatise on the Laws'', De Legibus, which was almost certainly not published in Cicero''s lifetime, and possibly had not received the last touches when he died. There are three books extant, with gaps in them; but a fifth book is quoted. While the Republic describes the ideal state, the Laws discusses its statutes, so that the later work some...