Prepared by David Reed haradda@aol.com or davidr@inconnect.com Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated by E S Shuckburgh INTRODUCTORY NOTE MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3,106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property