What is more agreeable than one’s home?

In this rhetorical question Cicero elevates the idea of “home” (domus) as the most naturally pleasing and restorative place in human life. The line implies that public honors, travel, wealth, or social acclaim ultimately pale beside the comfort, familiarity, and moral anchoring associated with one’s own household. Read in a Roman context, it can also gesture toward the domus as a center of family continuity, personal identity, and civic standing—an intimate sphere that supports one’s participation in public life. The question’s simplicity is part of its force: it treats the preference for home as self-evident, appealing to shared experience rather than argument.