De Officiis Ministrorum, a Christian construction of Cicero’s celebrated work and the most important of all Ambrose’s writings; also several treatises in recommendation of virginity.
Isidore with De officiis ecclesiasticis was the first in this department.
De Jure et Officiis Bellicis et Disciplina Militari, 1582, Original and English translation from Latin by J.
The result was the "Liber de moribus Hominum et officiis Nobilium ac Popularium super ludo scachorum," which immediately attained great popularity.
As to man's duty to his neighbor, a subject as to which Pagans before and even after the time of Cicero seem to have had but vague ideas, the treatise De Officiis is full of it, as indeed is the whole course of his life.
I regard the De Officiis as one of the most perfect treatises on morals which the world possesses, whether for the truth of the lessons given, for their universality, or for the beauty and lightness of the language.
But it may pass, perhaps, without that distinct contradiction which had to be made as to the enveloping the De Officiis in the garb of philosophy.
In the De Officiis he divides the entire matter into three parts, and to each part he devotes a book.
Maxime autem haec aetas a libidinibus arcenda est exercendaque in labore patientiaque et animi et corporis, ut eorum et in bellicis et in civilibus officiis vigeat industria.
But in this sacrament the substance of the bread or of the wine is the term wherefrom, while the body or the blood of Christ is the term "whereunto": for Ambrose says in De Officiis (De Myster.
On the contrary, Tully says (De Officiis i, 7) that "the object of justice is to keep men together in society and mutual intercourse.
But we ought not to give to them in such a way that they are likely to become richer thereby, as Ambrose says (De Officiis i, 30).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "officiis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
