title: Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
author:  Marcus Tullius Cicero 
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  [Illustration: MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO]
  
  De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
  
  By Cicero
  
  Translated, with an Introduction and Notes
  
  By Andrew P. Peabody
  
   **SYNOPSIS.**
  
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   **DE AMICITIA**
  
  1\. Introduction.
  
  2\. Reputation of Laelius for wisdom. The curiosity to know how he bore the
  death of Scipio.
  
  3\. His grounds of consolation in his bereavement
  
  4\. He expresses his faith in immortality. Desires perpetual memory in this
  world of the friendship between himself and Scipio.
  
  5\. True friendship can exist only among good men.
  
  6\. Friendship defined.
  
  7\. Benefits derived from friendship.
  
  8\. Friendship founded not on need, but on nature.
  
  9\. The relation of utility to friendship.
  
  10\. Causes for the separation of friends.
  
  11\. How far love for friends may go.
  
  12\. Wrong never to be done at a friend's request.
  
  13\. Theories that degrade friendship
  
  14\. How friendships are formed.
  
  15\. Friendle