The Ethics of Onnes

If he'd written in English, Cicero would have said the following: This is part of my translation of the prologue of Onnes. And he says, what of it if I do not perform the task of a translator, but preserve the views of those whom I consider sound while contributing my own judgment and order of composition? So that means we have to take very seriously the idea that Cicero isn't simply blindly presenting predecessors' views and leaving it at that.