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On the Laws, also known by its Latin name De Legibus (abbr. De Leg.), is a Socratic dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the last years of the Roman Republic. It bears the same name as Plato's famous dialogue, The Laws.
We must explain the nature of law [ ius ], and this must be traced from human nature. We must consider laws by which cities ought to be ruled. Then we must treat the laws [ ius] and orders of peoples that have been composed and written, in which what are called the civil laws [ ius] of our people will not be hidden.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Legibus. Georges de Plinval. Paris. Belles Lettres. 1959. Scanned printed text. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. Commentary references to this page (1): Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO APOLLO.
While the De Re Publica and the first book of the De Legibus are general and philosophical, the second and third books of the latter treatise provide us with what would at present be called an actual constitution for an ideal State, with a detailed commentary on many of its provisions; this constitution, though based in general upon the actual ...
On the following day Clodius carried a bill forbidding the execution of a Roman citizen without trial. Clodius then carried through a second law, of doubtful legality, declaring Cicero an exile. Cicero went first to Thessalonica, in Macedonia, and then to Illyricum.
Written in the final years of the Roman Republic, de Legibus is as a work that gives Cicero's own diagnosis of the ills that had befallen the Roman state and what might be done to cure them. It is thus a document crucial to our understanding of one of the most turbulent periods of Roman history.
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Introduction. In the De Legibus Cicero used the plan which he finally rejected for the De Re Publica; he himself is the chief character, and Quintus and Atticus are the others. The time is one long summer day; the place is Cicero’s estate at Arpinum.
