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I don’t want to mention this, but … I’m mentioning it anyway.

Every Latin student has had to do a Cicero speech or two (We do parts of In Verrem and In Catilinam), and you soon learn that Cicero really had basic stock-in-trade rhetorical strategy of “I’m not...

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To write the thing is to conquer it

Cicero, de Provinciis Consularibus X.25, Piso doesn’t send letters, Gabinius sends them but they are damned, but Caesar’s letters (one presumes) earn him honours as altogether no other man: vos enim,...

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