The Life of Cicero Volume II Chapter 6 - After the Battle

In which Cicero, finding himself bereft of country and caught in the melancholy aftermath of civil strife, endures a year of uneasy waiting at Brundisium, reflecting on his political fortunes, personal relations, and the bitter realities of power under Cæsar’s ascendancy. And in this sombre season of revision and resolve, he dedicates himself anew to literary labours, composing treatises that reveal both the intellect and the spirit of a statesman grappling with the shadow of decline.