J. L. Strachan-Davidson 
Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. HE purpose of this volume is to tell the story of Cicero’s life, and at the same time to set forth from his writings a presentation of the concluding age of the Roman Republic, and to record the disastrous but not inglorious failure of the last Free State of the an cient world.