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49 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 6
was written in the dative, sometimes with his title and the place where he could be found, e.g. M. Lucretio flamini Martis decurioni Pompeus.From a Pompeian wall-painting preserved in the Museum at Naples. 64. Letters were often written by secretaries from dictation, but most of Cicero's letters to Atticus and Quintus at least were written with his own hand; for in 59 B.C. he writes to Atticus: numquam ante arbitror te epistulam meam legisse, nisi mea manu scriptam Att. 2.23.1.; and in 49 B.C.: lippitudinis meae signum tibi sit librarii manus Att. 8.13.1.; and in 54 B.C. to Quintus: scribis enim te meas litteras superiores vix legere potuisse, in quo nihil eorum, mi frater, fuit quae putas; neque enim occupatus eram neque perturbatus nec iratus alicui, sed hoc facio semper ut, quicumque calamus in manus meas venerit, eo sic utar tamquam bono. Q. fr. 2.14 (15b). 1; Cf. also 2.15 (16).1. During the latter part of his life, however, especially during the years 44 and 43 B.C., even
54 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 6
ld be found, e.g. M. Lucretio flamini Martis decurioni Pompeus.From a Pompeian wall-painting preserved in the Museum at Naples. 64. Letters were often written by secretaries from dictation, but most of Cicero's letters to Atticus and Quintus at least were written with his own hand; for in 59 B.C. he writes to Atticus: numquam ante arbitror te epistulam meam legisse, nisi mea manu scriptam Att. 2.23.1.; and in 49 B.C.: lippitudinis meae signum tibi sit librarii manus Att. 8.13.1.; and in 54 B.C. to Quintus: scribis enim te meas litteras superiores vix legere potuisse, in quo nihil eorum, mi frater, fuit quae putas; neque enim occupatus eram neque perturbatus nec iratus alicui, sed hoc facio semper ut, quicumque calamus in manus meas venerit, eo sic utar tamquam bono. Q. fr. 2.14 (15b). 1; Cf. also 2.15 (16).1. During the latter part of his life, however, especially during the years 44 and 43 B.C., even the letters to Atticus were written by a secretary. Att. 15.20.4; 12.32.1. Ci
59 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 6
e the impression, but sometimes Asiatic chalk.pro Flacco, 37. Upon the outside of the roll the name of the person addressed was written in the dative, sometimes with his title and the place where he could be found, e.g. M. Lucretio flamini Martis decurioni Pompeus.From a Pompeian wall-painting preserved in the Museum at Naples. 64. Letters were often written by secretaries from dictation, but most of Cicero's letters to Atticus and Quintus at least were written with his own hand; for in 59 B.C. he writes to Atticus: numquam ante arbitror te epistulam meam legisse, nisi mea manu scriptam Att. 2.23.1.; and in 49 B.C.: lippitudinis meae signum tibi sit librarii manus Att. 8.13.1.; and in 54 B.C. to Quintus: scribis enim te meas litteras superiores vix legere potuisse, in quo nihil eorum, mi frater, fuit quae putas; neque enim occupatus eram neque perturbatus nec iratus alicui, sed hoc facio semper ut, quicumque calamus in manus meas venerit, eo sic utar tamquam bono. Q. fr. 2.14 (1
400 AD - 500 AD (search for this): text intro, chapter 6
Letter Writing. 59. In Cicero's time letters were commonly written either upon wax tablets or papyrus. Reference is made in Cic. Cat. 3.5 to a letter upon wax tablets, and they were not infrequently used as late as the fifth century A.D.Thompson, Greek and Latin Palaeography, p.22.; but the introduction into Italy of papyrus, which is mentioned as early as the time of Ennius,Marquardt, Handbuch, vol. VII. p.808, n. l. gradually restricted the use of wax tablets, so that, in so far as letters were concerned, they were in general used only in writing to a correspondent near at hand, especially when one hoped for an immediate answer upon the tablets sent. Thus Cicero writes to Lepta: simul atque accepi a Seleuco tuo litteras, statim quaesivi e Balbo per codicillos quid esset in lege. Fam. 6.18.1. Such occasional notes were called codicilliCf. also Seneca, Ep. 55.11. as indicated in the extract, or sometimes pugillares. For letters, however, sent to a distance, as most of Cicero'
44 BC - 43 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 6
.23.1.; and in 49 B.C.: lippitudinis meae signum tibi sit librarii manus Att. 8.13.1.; and in 54 B.C. to Quintus: scribis enim te meas litteras superiores vix legere potuisse, in quo nihil eorum, mi frater, fuit quae putas; neque enim occupatus eram neque perturbatus nec iratus alicui, sed hoc facio semper ut, quicumque calamus in manus meas venerit, eo sic utar tamquam bono. Q. fr. 2.14 (15b). 1; Cf. also 2.15 (16).1. During the latter part of his life, however, especially during the years 44 and 43 B.C., even the letters to Atticus were written by a secretary. Att. 15.20.4; 12.32.1. Cicero's principal secretary was Tiro. Mention is also made of another, Spintharus by name. Att. 13.25.3. As there was no postal system at that time, letters had to be sent by one's own messengers (tabellarii.) or the messengers of one's friends. This made the composition of a letter a more serious matter in Cicero's day than it is in ours. But his letters were not always studied productions: some of