August 7. 1796. Sunday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

August 7. 1796. Sunday.

I am reading a Work of Cicero that I remember not to have read before. It is intituled M. Tullii Ciceronis Si Deo placet Consolatio.1 Remarkable for an ardent hope and confident belief of a future State.

Mr. Whitcomb preached and dined with Us. Prince, having provoked beyond bearing by his insolent Contempt of repeated orders, got a gentle flogging, and went off, i.e. run away. Thomas Lothrop return’d from Bridgwater.

1. Cicero’s Consolatio is a work of which only fragments, some of them known to be spurious, survive.

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Title: August 7. 1796. Sunday.
Author: Adams, John
Date: 7 August 1796

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Cite as: “August 7. 1796. Sunday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0013-0003-0007. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 239.]