letter to Atticus
Marcus Tullius Cicero
cited 2 times by 2 works in the library · not held
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Academica Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
The editorial note invokes a specific letter by Cicero to Atticus as the authoritative source establishing the reuse of the Prooemium.
It opened with a Prooemium (the same preface that Cicero, by his own admission in a letter to Atticus, once mistakenly reused elsewhere).
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On the Shortness of Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation
Seneca explicitly identifies and quotes from a specific letter of Cicero to Atticus as a textual source.
What mournful words he wrings out in a certain letter to Atticus, when the elder Pompey had now been defeated and the son was still trying to revive his shattered arms in Spain!
on the shortness of life ¶
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