Loeb De officiis prints beneficence and good faith as public duties toward others
Printed duties-of-beneficence are a humanitarian heading, not a relief convoy. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.
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Twin of the provincial-extraction row. Medium confidence.
Context
Beneficence can be elite display. It still names a claim against naked seizure.
Cicero is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Printed duties-of-beneficence are a humanitarian heading, not a relief convoy.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Cicero
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
Named orator as heading of later editions. Editors, printers, and later republican readers publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLoeb De officiis prints beneficence and good faith as public duties toward others
- strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 September 1913 · verified
Printed duties-of-beneficence are a humanitarian heading, not a relief convoy.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.5)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.De Officiis — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
- 2.Perseus — Cicero, De officiisPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
De officiis in English prints liberalitas and fides as duties that can restrain plunder.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorCicero
- contributed toFactLoeb De officiis prints beneficence and good faith as public duties toward others
- strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
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Factrail. (2026). Loeb De officiis prints beneficence and good faith as public duties toward others. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cic-alms-officiis-humanitarian
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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