A Popular Consul’s Claptrap and the Sequence of Tenses. The Text and Rhetorical Significance of Cicero, De lege agraria 2.7.

The starting point of this article is a textual problem at the beginning of §7 of Agr. 2 (Cicero’s first consular contio), where he claims that he will be a people’s man (popularis). A close examination of the role of attraction in the sequence of tenses shows that the transmitted text is almost cer...

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Publicado en:Mnemosyne Vol. 67; no. 6; pp. 911 - 930
Autor principal: Wisse, Jakob
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 11/15/2014
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