Literary quotations in Cicero’s Epistulae

Author: Armleder, Paul J.
Title: Literary quotations in Cicero’s Epistulae
Review/Collection: "The Classical Bulletin", 43
Year edition: 1967
Pages: 81-85
Keywords: Poesia - Poesie - Poetry, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Abstract] The reason that the majority of quotations in the letters are from poets lies in the fact that Cicero in his epistles often quoted from memory. Also, there was need in the Letters for brief but striking quotations.
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Author initials: Armleder 1967