Cicero in the Courtroom of St. Thomas Aquinas

126 Pages·1946·3.226 MB·English

by  E. K. Rand

CICERO IN THE COURTROOM
OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
PUBLISHED AQUINAS LECTURES
St. Thomas and the Life of Learning (1937) by the
Rev. John F. McCormick, S.J., former professor
of philosophy at Loyola University.
St. Thomas and the Gentiles (1938) by Mortimer J.
Adler, Ph.D., associate professor of the philosophy
of law, University of Chicago.
St. Thomas and the Greeks (1939) by Anton C. Pegis,
Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, Fordham
University.
The Nature and Functions of Authority (1940) by
Yves Simon, Ph.D., associate professor of philos¬
ophy, University of Notre Dame.
St. Thomas and Analogy (1941) by the Rev. Gerald
B. Phelan, Ph.D., president of the Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of
Toronto.
St. Thomas and the Problem of Evil (1942) by
Jacques Maritain, Ph.D., professor of philosophy,
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of
Toronto.
Humanism and Theology (1943) by Werner Jaeger,
Ph.D.,- Litt.D., "university” professor, Harvard
University.
The Nature and Origins of Scientism (1944) by the
Rev. John Wellmuth, S.J., chairman of the Depart¬
ment of Philosophy, Loyola University.
Cicero in the Courtroom of St. Thomas Aquinas
(1945) by E. K. Rand, Ph.D., Litt.D., L.L.D.,
Pope Professor of Latin, emeritus, Harvard Uni¬
versity.
The Aquinas Lecture, 1945
CICERO IN
THE COURTROOM
OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society
of Marquette University
BY
E. K. RAND
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Pope Professor of Latin, emeritus,
Harvard University
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS
MILWAUKEE
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BY THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY
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THE AQUINAS LECTURES
The Aristotelian Society of Marquette Uni¬
versity each year invites a scholar to speak
on the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
These lectures have come to be called the
Aquinas Lectures and are customarily deliv¬
ered on the Sunday nearest March 7, the feast
day of the Society’s patron saint.
For the year 1945, the Society has the
pleasure of publishing the lecture by Edward
Kennard Rand, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., Pope
Professor of Latin emeritus, Harvard Uni¬
versity.
Professor Rand was born in Boston, Mass.,
in 1871 and graduated from Harvard Univer¬
sity in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts summa cum laude. He obtained his Mas¬
ter’s degree the next year and spent the fol¬
lowing years in study at the Harvard Divinity
School and at the Episcopal Theological Sem¬
inary (in Cambridge, Mass.) and as an In¬
structor in Latin at the University of Chicago.
After a year of study at the University of
Munich, from which he received the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy in 1900, he returned
to Harvard in 1901 to enter upon a career of
teaching and scholarship in classical and me¬
diaeval Latin literature and paleography.
When, after forty-one years, he retired from
Harvard in 1942, he passed two winters as
resident scholar at the Institute for Byzantine
Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington,
D. C.
Professor Rand was exchange professor at
the Sorbonne, Sather professor of Classical
Literature at the University of California, and
annual professor at the American Academy
in Rome. He received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Letters from Victoria University,
Manchester (Eng.), Western Reserve Univer¬
sity, Trinity College, Dublin, from his own
university of Harvard, and posthumously
from the Sorbonne, and the honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws from the Universities of
Glasgow and Pennsylvania.
He was a founder and first president of
the Mediaeval Academy of America, a mem¬
ber and former president of the American
Philological Association, and a former trustee
and life member of the American Academy in
Rome. He was a member or fellow of the
American Philosophical Society, of the Massa¬
chusetts Historical Society, of the National In¬
stitute of Arts and Letters, of the Dante So¬
ciety, and of the Archaeological Institute of
America. Abroad, he was a corresponding
member or fellow of the British Academy, of
the Academy of Inscriptions of the French
Institute, of the Bavarian Academy of Sci¬
ences, of the Bollandist Society, and of
academies at Mantua and Lund.
Professor Rand made pioneer studies of
the Carolingian scriptorium of Tours: A Survey
of the Manuscript of Tours (1929) and The
Earliest Book of Tours (1934). He edited
and translated Boethius for the Loeb Library
with the Rev. H. F. Stewart (1918) and pub¬
lished with E. H. Wilkins Dantis Alaghieri
Operum Latinorum Concordantiae (1912). He
was editor-in-chief for a critical edition of
Sevius’ Commentary on Virgil. Other, more
popular works were: Ovid and His Influence
(1925), Founders of the Middle Ages (1928),
The Magical Art of Virgil (1931), Les Esprits
Souverains dans la Litter at me romaine (1936),
and The Building of Eternal Rome (1943). His
numerous articles and reviews appeared not only
in scholarly journals but also in such magazines
as The Atlantic Monthly and The Saturday
Review of Literature.
To these the Aristotelian Society takes
pleasure in adding Cicero in the Courtroom of
St. Thomas Aquinas. The author himself did
not read the proofs, a task which was performed
by colleagues on the Harvard faculty. Professor
Rand died suddenly in Cambridge, Mass., on
Sunday, October 28, 1945.
Requiescat in Pace.
PREFACE
I wish, first of all, to thank various friends
for services without which the present volume
could not have seen the light. Professor Roy
J. Deferrari and Sister Inviolata, C.D.P., of the
Catholic University of America furnished the
basic material from their Concordance to the
Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas. To
the Very Reverend Gerald B. Phelan, Presi¬
dent of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies at Toronto, and to the Reverend Rob¬
ert J. Slavin, O.P., Ph.D., of the Catholic Uni¬
versity of America I am obliged for important
details, as will be seen in the Notes. Finally, I
shall never cease to be grateful to the Rever¬
end Gerard Smith, S.J., for the invitation to
this distinguished lectureship, for the courtesy,
and merry wit of his letters, for his painstaking
examination of my manuscript, and for per¬
mitting it to be published despite its abnormal
size.
E. K. Rand