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Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Cicero's Public Life and Contemporary Politics. (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Cicero's Family and Friends. (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Cicero's Correspondence and its First Publication. (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter I: ad Atticum 1.1 (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter X: ad Atticum 3.4 (search)
Letter X: ad Atticum 3.4
Vibo, about April 12,58 B.C.
The letters of this third book, ad Att., written in exile, expose perhaps more than any other portion of his correspondence, the weak side of Cicero's character. He is unmanly, selfish, and ungrateful. In contrast the letters of 44 and 43 B.C.
breathe a spirit of unfailing courage and unselfish patriotism. It is only when two such epochs in Cicero's life are placed side by side that the reader can discover the true key to his character, which is to be found in the fact that he was peculiariy sensitive to his surroundings, and was exalted or depressed by circumstances which would have had no abiding influence upon a more phlegmatic nature (cf. Intr. 50). Without waiting to see what action would be taken upon the bill of Clodius, which did not mention him by name (qui civem Romanum indemnatum interemisset, ei aqua et igni interdiceretur, Vell. Paterc. 2.45), Cicero left Rome about March 20, 58 B.C.
, and went to his friend Sica,
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter XXIII: ad Quintum fratrem 3.5 (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXX: ad familiares 15.17 (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXXV: ad familiares 4.5 (search)
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXXX: ad familiares 9.8 (search)
Letter LXXX: ad familiares 9.8
Tusculum, July 11 or 12, 45 B.C.
On Varro, cf. Ep. LX. introd. note.
promissi tui: Varro had promised, as early as 47 B.C.
, to dedicate one of his works to Cicero; cf. Att. 13.12.3 Varro mihi denuntiaverat magnam sane et gravem prosfw/nhsin; but in 45 Cicero writes impatiently (Att. 13.12.3): biennium praeteriit, cum ille *kallipi/dhs assiduo cursu cubitum nullum processerit. Ultimately Varro's work de Lingua Latina appeared, between 45 and 43 B.C.
, of which twenty books were dedicated to Cicero.
quattuor admonitores: the four books of the Academica. These books, at the suggestion of Atticus, were dedicated to Varro. Cf. Att. 13.19. Cicero hoped that this might stimulate Varro to the performance of his promised work.
os, effrontery; a colloquial word. Cf. Plaut. M. G. 189 os habet linguam perfidiam; Ter. Eun. 806 os durum! (you brazenface!). Varro was not an adherent of the New Academy.
qui flagitent: although these admonitores have been dir
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXXXVI: ad familiares 11.1 (search)