Tusculum
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our places near Tusculum
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Tusculan Disputations
Cicero's estate where the dialogue's disputations, including this fourth day's discussion, take place.
Which, as I have often done elsewhere, so lately at Tusculum I pursued with zeal.
Which custom, since Carneades held it most acutely and most copiously, we did both often at other times, and lately at Tusculum, that we should dispute after that manner.
Lucullus
Place near Rome proposed by Lucullus as a future meeting site for the philosophical circle.
For meeting more often, and especially at our places near Tusculum, we shall inquire into whatever shall seem good.
On the Commonwealth
Town near Rome associated with retreat and leisure.
As for Marcus Cato, a man unknown and new—the very pattern by which all of us who pursue these same ends are drawn toward industry and virtue—he assuredly might have enjoyed his leisure at Tusculum, a healthful spot and near at hand.
Meditations
The place where an anecdote about Marcus's father and a customs-officer occurred.
we recall how he treated the customs-officer who begged his pardon at Tusculum, and all his behaviour was of that kind.