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in today's letter: cicero criticises dolabella and says that he's terrible and he hopes brutus defeats him soon! so much for his former son-in-law! there has many been another mutiny in brutus' army! and the end of the letter does not surv[...]
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that tweet that's like "i love when it gets busy at starbucks and the gay baristas get mean" but the gay baristas are marcus tullius cicero and starbucks is the dying roman republic
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if you were wondering how long the old man has left.
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we all have that 1 friend named cicero who isn't going to make it
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I know that @e-pistulae has gotten me good because when I read Cicero died on December 7, 43 BCE, I immediately checked the date of Cicero's last letter and was relieved to find we have another year.
Seriously, fantastic project, and it really brings Cicero and his contemporaries to life in a way that biographies and textbooks can't.
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today's e-pistulae email, also known as the "cicero immediately teaches us about dramatic irony" email.
no no marcus, it is both here and there. especially for you.
#personal#e-pistulae#'it's neither here nor there' ok but are you sure about that#like i'm sorry but i'm cackling at the real life foreshadowing#like this is cinematic almost this is like a stock moment in any historical figure's biopic#the moment where they unintentionally dismiss someone who would become vastly important later#but he actually did it! in real life!#this period in time vacillates between 'revenge tragedy of shakespearean proportions' and 'sitcom' so often#right now we're at the sitcom part because mr 'neither here nor there' hasn't shown up yet#with his ten million dollars and his personally loyal army and his teenage vendetta and determination to kill everyone
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Now THAT'S a statement coming from @catilinas
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what am i even going to do when e-pistulae ends. i'm going to have to read all of that man's speeches
#i'm scared of doing that but it seems like the obvious next step. i still need to read the philippics#max.txt#e-pistulae
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you can manifest it (write the philippics) marce tulli i believe in you
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oh my god Marcus he's ill cut him some slack
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Is the late Roman republic ok???
#Literally WHAT is this paragraph#Cicero buddy this is an unhinged reaction to someone executing others#The opening line reads like he's writing it with pink glitter gel pen#what the FUCK u dudes#e-pistulae
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