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Recall to your mind and ponder the fact that C. Caesar, while engaged in a most formidable war in Gaul, wrote . . . two books of the most meticulous character On Analogy, discussing amid flying darts the declension of nouns, and the aspiration of words and their classification mid the blare of bugles and trumpets (Fro. Parth.  transl. Haines). In a letter to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, the grammarian and rhetorician Fronto refers to Caesar to encourage his former pupil to dedicate some of his time to intellectual activities. Fronto's passage is one of the few testimonies to Caesar's linguistic interests, which culminated in the writing of a treatise in two books, De Analogia. Suetonius (Iul. ) reports the episode in less romanticized terms, confirming the title and the number of books of the work, and also adding detail about its composition, namely that it was written "while crossing the Alps and returning from Cisalpine Gaul, where he had held the assizes." Caesar's treatise is also mentioned by Quintilian (..) and Gellius, who also transmits two important quotations. The first (..) is a fortunate aphorism: [fr. ]  Avoid, as you would a rock (scopulum), every unhear

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Author

Giuseppe Pezzini

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107670495

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.8 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14