Author: Sillett, Andrew J.
Title: Quousque tandem: The Reception of a Catchphrase
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 267-282
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Cicero’s consular persona is revisited through the reception of the famous motto opening the first Catilinarian speech, quousque tandem, a catchphrase becoming synonymous with Cicero in the modern world. Looking at contemporary resonances and echoes of Cicero’s words, acquiring a canonical status through the times, this paper follows the fascinating journey of the Ciceronian formulation, starting with Sallust’s inversion in the mouth of Cicero’s archetypical foe (Sall. Cat. 20.9) and Livy’s redeployment in Manlius’ speech (6.18.5) to end with Pliny the Younger (ep. 2.10.1–2), Tacitus (Ann. 1.28–4–6; 1.13.4) and the unusual, parodic treatment in Apuleius Metamorphoses (3.27). It suggests that the manipulation of Cicero’s phrase in different works and times reflects the moral ambivalence of its author, at the same time responding to the early empire process of simplification of Cicero into a caricatural figure. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xviii]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-016/pdf
Author initials: Sillett 2022
Title: Quousque tandem: The Reception of a Catchphrase
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 267-282
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Cicero’s consular persona is revisited through the reception of the famous motto opening the first Catilinarian speech, quousque tandem, a catchphrase becoming synonymous with Cicero in the modern world. Looking at contemporary resonances and echoes of Cicero’s words, acquiring a canonical status through the times, this paper follows the fascinating journey of the Ciceronian formulation, starting with Sallust’s inversion in the mouth of Cicero’s archetypical foe (Sall. Cat. 20.9) and Livy’s redeployment in Manlius’ speech (6.18.5) to end with Pliny the Younger (ep. 2.10.1–2), Tacitus (Ann. 1.28–4–6; 1.13.4) and the unusual, parodic treatment in Apuleius Metamorphoses (3.27). It suggests that the manipulation of Cicero’s phrase in different works and times reflects the moral ambivalence of its author, at the same time responding to the early empire process of simplification of Cicero into a caricatural figure. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xviii]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-016/pdf
Author initials: Sillett 2022
