Abstract
During the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Teschen of 1779, ending the phony War of Bavarian Succession, Frederick II and his court stayed in Breslau, the capital of Silesia. There, in conversation with Christian Garve, the city's most famous son, the king strongly recommended a new German translation of Cicero's On Moral Duties (De Officiis), one of the classical texts of humanist philosophy and his favorite book. Frederick's faithful subject dutifully obliged his sovereign. Four years later, in the subservient language of a dedication to a royal patron, Garve offered in due obedience to Frederick a result that, perhaps flawed, was vindicated by the efforts directed toward the execution of the command.'
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