Une of the people, was estranged by a deadly hatred from Quintus Pompey, who was then consul, with whom up to that time he had lived on terms of the closest union and afiection), how great was the surprise and even regret of the people. Accordingly, when Scaevola had incidentally mentioned that very subject, he laid before us the discourse of Laelius on Friendship, which had been addressed by the latter to himself and to the other son-in-law of Laelius, Cains Fannins, the son of Marcus, a few days after the death of Africanus. The Opinions of that disquisition I committed to mem ory, and in this book I have set them forth according to my own judgment. For I have introduced the indi viduals as if actually speaking, lest said I and said he should be too frequently interposed; and that the dialogue might seem to be held by persons face to face. For when you were frequently urging me to write some thing on the subject of friendship, it seemed to me a matter worthy as well of the consideration of all as of our intimacy. I have therefore willingly done so, that I might confer a benefit on many in consequence of your request. But as in the Cato Major, which was addressed to you on the subject of old age, I have in troduced Cato when an old man conversing, because there seemed no person better adapted to speak of that period of life than he, who had been an old man for so long a time, and in that old age had been preeminently.

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