Letters to Atticus, cited

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1. Academica Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 3

   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).

2. On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 5

   The paragraph is explicitly headed '[Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 8.11.1]'.

   [Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 8.

3. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 10

   Cicero's letters are explicitly cited as historical evidence for the burden of family rites on inheritance.

   The letters of Cicero to Atticus, which are full of allusions to them, leave no doubt that they constituted an intolerable burden on Inheritances;

4. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   letter 118 2 passages anchored here

   Cicero's letters to Atticus are explicitly named and described as a model Seneca chooses not to follow

   And so I will give in advance, and will not do what Cicero, that most eloquent man, bids Atticus do, that even if he has no matter to write of, he should write whatever comes to his lips.

5. On the Shortness of Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation

   on the shortness of life

   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!