Cicero’s Translations from Greek

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Abstract A number of passages in Cicero’s philosophical works are translated directly from Greek. Apart from this, Cicero devotes considerable attention to the problems of rendering individual Greek words and concepts in Latin. In this chapter I shall examine these two aspects of Cicero’s literary activity, with a view to enabling the reader to assess more accurately Cicero’s contribution to the development of the Latin language as a medium for the expression of abstract thought. I do not aim to provide a commentary on the translated passages or to catalogue in detail every item in Cicero’s philosophical vocabulary, but merely to identify the central issues and suggest some possible lines of thought about them.

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