On Duties: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 11 original MP3 tracks, 6:20:40 running time and a link to listen.
On Duties, credited to Marcus Tullius Cicero, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero. (Translated by Walter Miller.) Read in English by Geoffrey Edwards On Duties (Latin: DE OFFICIIS) discusses virtue, expediency and apparent conflicts between the two. St. Ambrose, St. Jerome and other Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church considered it to be legitimate for study. It was the second book after the Bible printed on Gutenberg's press and a standard text taught at Eton College. Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Walter Miller. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)
Recording facts
- Recording title: On Duties
- Author credits: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 11
- Listed recording duration: 6:20:40
Catalogue topics
- philosophy
- morality
- God
- Latin
- Roman
- ethics
- Cicero
- stoic
Track guide
- 01 - Book I Sections I-XIII (Text 3) — 42:39
- 02 - Book I Sections XIV-XXVI (Text 47) — 46:12
- 03 - Book I Sections XXVII-XXXIV (Text 95) — 32:00
- 04 - Book I Sections XXXV-XLV (Text 129) — 35:47
- 05 - Book II Sections I-VIII (Text 169) — 30:18
- 06 - Book II Sections IX-XVII (Text 199) — 34:23
- 07 - Book II Sections XVIII-XXV (Text 233) — 31:28
- 08 - Book III Sections I-VII (Text 271) — 30:33
- 09 - Book III Sections VIII-XV (Text 303) — 32:05
- 10 - Book III Sections XVI-XXIII (Text 335) — 32:52
- 11 - Book III Sections XXIV-XXXIII (Text 369) — 32:26
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