Algunas consideraciones sobre la 'liberalitas' en el "De officiis" de Cicerón

Abstract

The following article studies the liberalitas as the roman virtue that causes the roman elites’ munificent behaviour. We study what liberalitas means for Cicero’s De Officiis (his best-known philo-sophical and political work) and compare his idea of this virtue whit others ancient writer’s ideas on the same subject. We dis-cover that sometimes the munificent behaviour we know by epi-graphical documentation was not liberalis as Cicero wanted to be, and was only the exhibition of elites’ pride that doesn’t follow the limits that from an ethical point of view this virtue should have.