Natural Law

Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, ms. B.II.6 (Codex Quirinianus), fol. 1r — opening of the second collection of the Epistulae Morales, 11th–12th century

Epistles 93–124

Reading companion and full text of Seneca's Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Volume VI (Epistles 93–124), translated by Richard M. Gummere — the concluding portion of Seneca's great letter-collection, written in the final years of his life under Nero, addressing questions of death, virtue, the good life, the value of precepts, and the relationship between philosophy and action.

First page of Vat. lat. 5757, a palimpsest manuscript from Bobbio

De Re Publica

Reading companion and full text of Cicero's De Re Publica (On the Republic), translated by Clinton W. Keyes — a dialogue in six books examining the best form of government, the nature of justice, and the duties of the ideal statesman, culminating in the celebrated Dream of Scipio.