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Cicero's Letter to Atticus 2.16: "A Great Controversy"
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 106, Number 3, Spring 2013
- pp. 483-486
- 10.1353/clw.2013.0046
- Article
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In Ad Atticum 2.16, Cicero speaks of a great controversy between Theophrastus and Dicaearchus. Consideration of context (literary and political) makes clear that the controversy is the creation of Cicero.