 Consolatio or " Consolation " is a lost work written by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the year 45 BC . The work had been written to soothe his grief after the death of his daughter , Tullia , which had occurred in February of the same year . Not much is known about the work , although it seems to have been inspired by the Greek philosopher Crantor 's ancient work De <unk> ( " On Grief " ) , and its structure was probably similar to a series of letter correspondences between Servius Sulpicius Rufus and Cicero . 
