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AUGUSTINE AND CICERO |
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Confessions, 3. 3.6 - 5.9 Click here for information about: 1) the public domain texts used on this site; 2) more recent scholarly work on the original language texts.
Augustine describes how, in his nineteenth year, he studied the book Hortensius by Cicero (Tully). This kindled in him a desire to study philosophy and the scriptures. Hortensius survives only in fragments preserved in the writings of Augustine and Lactantius. In it Cicero defends the study of philosophy as against oratory.
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