thoodleoo:thoodleoo:i love cicero but the irony of this is destroying mefor context:cicero is asking
thoodleoo:thoodleoo:i love cicero but the irony of this is destroying mefor context:cicero is asking lucceius to write something about how cool his consulship waspart of his argument is that if he wrote it himself, people would roll their eyescicero then proceeded to write not one, but two (2) extremely mediocre epic poems about his accomplishmentsreblogging because i forgot this important point:our largest chunk of cicero’s epic poetry only survives because cicero himself, in one of his other works, quotes roughly 70 lines of one of the epic poems he wrote about himself -- source link
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