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Reconstructing Cicero’s Hortensius. A Note on Fragment 43 Grilli

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Publication: Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 451-456
p-ISSN:1841-5377
e-ISSN:2247-8353
Publisher:Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide”
Place:Iaşi
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Abstract:Cicero’s Hortensius, undoubtedly the most famous exhortation to philosophy from the whole of Latin literature, has survived only in fragmentary form, as quotations or paraphrases in the works of different writers of Antiquity, including Seneca, Tacitus, Nonius Marcellus, Lactantius and Augustine. Despite the cautious attempts of different scholars to reconstruct this dialogue, we still do not have a definitive edition of it. Since only a small number of the known fragments can be certainly assigned to one particular place, the attempts to reestablish the plan of the dialogue and the proper order in which the fragments should be arranged still remain a source of quarrel between scholars. In this paper I propose a new arrangement of the frag. 43 from Grilli’s edition of the Hortensius, in an attempt to establish more adequately its place and meaning in the structure of the dialogue.
Key words:Cicero’s Hortensius, reconstruction of Hortensius, otium, contentio animi, Latin literature
Language: English
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