Tusculan
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Most of these characters had been earlier described by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2012
The poet had closed his door, and unrolled before his solitary lamp his favourite manuscript, "The Tusculan Disputations of Cicero."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
Of course he got back his house; and with his house about £16,000 for its re-erection, and £4000 for the damage done to the Tusculan villa with £2000 for the Formian villa.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
In the five of the Books of the Tusculan Disputations, still addressed to Brutus, he contends: 1.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
"You should keep the books of the philosophers for your Tusculan ease," he had said in the preceding chapter; and he speaks, in the same page, of "Plato's fabulous State."
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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