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L.S.J. and Cicero's Letters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. R. Shackleton Bailey
Affiliation:
Jesus College, Cambridge

Extract

Cicero's use of the term is hardly a joke, and has to do with medicine, not logic. He says that his predecessor as governor of Cilicia, App. Claudius Pulcher, is like a doctor whose patient has been transferred to another practitioner, and who takes offence when the new man alters the treatment.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1963

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