Tusculan
Britishadjective
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Most of these characters had been earlier described by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations.
From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2012
Cato, as quoted by Cicero in the Tusculan Disputations, and in the Brutus16, is our earliest authority on the subject.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
The apprehension of future punishment, as in the Tusculan Disputations, is laid entirely aside, and it is assumed as a principle, that, after death, we either shall not be miserable, or be superlatively happy.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
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
I. This fifth day, Brutus, shall put an end to our Tusculan Disputations: on which day we discussed your favourite subject.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
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