22 dezembro 2019

The ancient Roman orator and politician Cicero once wrote poetry! And it was notoriously poor,...

The ancient Roman orator and politician Cicero once wrote poetry! And it was notoriously poor, too.

Over a hundred years after Cicero’s death, the Roman historian Tacitus quipped that Julius Caesar and Brutus wrote poetry too, and “though they were no better poets than Cicero, they were more fortunate, because fewer people know about their poetic endeavors.”

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