Archiving the Internet & Cicero's Self Consolation

We are hard at work collecting case law. We hope to develop a substantial collection of free case law, for public perusal. Which, while undertaken in part for lucre, has a noble import all its own. Indexing data is helpful, but archiving data is a form of preservation. If the half of the Internet that isn't Google disappeared tomorrow, Google's cache (mirrors of the pages indexed) might repopulate most of what was lost.

Which all comes to mind because We have been passing Anthony Everitt's Cicero around the office here at Rominger Legal. We have learned a lot from this book, and since Latin is now in actuality a dead language (a posse ad esse) we needed an English translation, less the substance of Cicero's life and the original Latin text pass ad acta from existence.

Which is the point of this post. Everitt refers to Cicero's authorship of Self Consolation, referring to it as "one of the most celebrated" text of antiquity. He points out that this text has been lost.

Go figure, a celebrated text, taken out by Father Time's No. 2 Eraser.

That's why we support any and all attempts to catalogue and preserve human knowledge and literary works. Check out the Internet Archive for an example of what needs to be done. Let's not let history repeat itself. (gratuitous cliche included here at no extra charge)