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Greek and Latin Epistolary Formulae: Some Light on Cicero's Letter Writing

Hannah M. Cotton

American Journal of Philology. (Winter, 1984) pp. 409-425

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[292 words] cicero, letter, letters, atticus, written, caesar, quintus, brutus, correspondence, catiline, wrote, bailey, marcus, shackleton, tiro, writing, pompey, nepos, tyrrell, balbus, himself, friend, purser, terentia, lucceius, tullia, matius, atticum, trebatius, catilinarian

[203 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[186 words] verb, genitive, plural, accusative, noun, dative, verbs, singular, forms, adjective, construction, nouns, ablative, passive, latin, adjectives, nominative, participle, usage, object, meaning, active, infinitive, uses, words, preposition, neuter, pronoun, sentence, phrase

[175 words] subjunctive, future, verb, aorist, indicative, clauses, clause, perfect, imperfect, infinitive, optative, negative, tense, verbs, sentence, sentences, tenses, imperative, construction, latin, action, meaning, forms, indirect, participle, relative, force, temporal, expression, conditional

[172 words] esse, atque, enim, etiam, quid, neque, cicero, eius, nihil, quidem, esset, tamen, nisi, mihi, sibi, quibus, erat, causa, haec, fuit, omnia, modo, quem, autem, omnes, ipse, sine, quis, ille, rerum

[157 words] papyrus, papyri, egypt, text, wilcken, document, mich, documents, hunt, karanis, letter, alexandria, oxyrhynchus, ostraca, zenon, lines, grenfell, egyptian, ostracon, preisigke, youtie, receipts, texts, ostr, line, prefect, poxy, written, amundsen, receipt

[108 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[106 words] tibi, mihi, quid, ovid, nunc, haec, quis, tamen, esse, ille, illa, semper, ipse, erit, sine, quoque, fuit, amor, saepe, nobis, quem, licet, puer, bene, trist, habet, nostra, manus, modo, erat

[97 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[79 words] legal, roman_law, ulpian, gaius, slave, digest, edict, property, jurists, praetor, manumission, paul, text, actio, formula, iure, texts, freedmen, tables, watson, slaves, action, justinian, kaser, master, irnitana, testator, rights, heirs, institutes

[57 words] lines, line, words, verse, repetition, word, verses, phrase, position, pattern, beginning, structure, formula, sentence, repeated, effect, phrases, emphasis, metrical, poem, adjective, sense, verbal, clause, caesura, arrangement, passage, verb, preceding, formulae

[55 words] kcai, tcov, icai, passage, kata, kati, kaci, icat, kcti, kait, nepi, kcat, oiov, tflv, epyov, pipilo, ckai, touto, xprjv, xpctv, xprv, otov, tiva, touq, xpcv, kcli, eoti, votto, iepov, tilv

[54 words] senate, imperium, office, consuls, consul, magistrates, mommsen, augustus, provinces, senators, consular, senatorial, praetor, power, elections, tribunes, magistrate, republic, laws, caesar, consulship, election, passed, censors, cicero, powers, senatus, decree, procedure, period

[51 words] plautus, quid, terence, mihi, tibi, plaut, poen, trin, atque, capt, nunc, phorm, esse, amph, bacch, etiam, pers, merc, truc, quin, neque, haut, pseud, asin, andr, epid, curc, heaut, enim, quom

[51 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[50 words] christian, pagan, augustine, christians, christianity, jerome, church, eusebius, bishop, christ, ambrose, tertullian, prudentius, gregory, paul, letter, religious, persecution, pagans, basil, bishops, migne, clement, origen, new_testament, paganism, acts, chrysostom, gospel, letters

[49 words] synesius, hypatia, roques, lacombrade, cyrene, colluthus, alexandria, andronicus, garzya, hermeias, livrea, waterspout, brother, hermelin, tuesday, amarantus, brothers, dion, amous, ill-fated, jacqueline, eteocypriote, hoche, inflata, vogt, al-marwazi, cyrenaica, euoptius, ijekavski, proclus

[42 words] studien, akademie, heidelberg, wissenschaften, sprache, stuttgart, uber, untersuchungen, grammatik, griechen, beitrage, bonn, alten, vols, neue, muller, forschungen, festschrift, handbuch, altertumswissenschaft, klassischen, diss, wien, burckhardt, literatur, lateinischen, lateinische, wilhelm, otto, philologie

[35 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[34 words] dative, fore, locative, intensive, constraint, embedded, control, perfect, lyrical, instrumental, predication, directive, situations, epistemic, datives, prolepsis, semantic, predications, constraints, echein, modal, futurum, violation, intention, einai, agent, stephens, spatial, genitive, laurence

[32 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[30 words] idem, romain, empire, roman_empire, sous, i988, i989, i987, i986, i990, i982, i984, i985, i983, i992, i99i, siecle, jones, latomus, millar, anrw, chiron, i98i, i993, i980, actes, i994, acta, i977, brunt

[29 words] marseille, gallia, langue, arles, entretiens, hardt, benoit, chantraine, glanum, zilao, provence, grecque, classique, flaminica, antiquite, banques, banque, rolland, quebec, prosop, gaul, nimes, gaule, flaminicae, narbonensis, ptol, latine, massalia, aries, oppida

[25 words] latin, english, language, teacher, student, reading, teachers, teaching, pupils, words, vocabulary, knowledge, pupil, translation, method, classics, grammar, schools, training, learning, taught, education, teach, learn, value, instruction, every, high_school, languages, ability

[24 words] livy, plin, quint, mart, neque, suet, cicero, verg, rell, plaut, neve, twice, ovid, latin, stat, prose, cato, caes, uses, epist, draeger, gell, lucr, usage, writers, cites, sall, prorsus, poetry, codd

[23 words] esse, enim, autem, etiam, haec, tamen, quidem, atque, quia, vero, apud, modo, quibus, quid, quoque, dicitur, neque, nihil, eius, quasi, inter, videtur, igitur, omnia, potest, loco, ergo, nisi, unde, illud

[23 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[19 words] alexander, arrian, macedonian, philip, king, curtius, diodorus, diod, tarn, ptolemy, macedonians, antigonus, plutarch, macedonia, alexander_the_great, demetrius, curt, royal, plut, olympias, antipater, alex, persian, eumenes, justin, sources, darius, perdiccas, bosworth, hammond

[18 words] mommsen, romischen, romische, dazu, untersuchungen, klio, gesch, zeit, meyer, gelzer, stuttgart, beloch, diss, munchen, hermes, studien, ders, siehe, republik, cass, wiesbaden, welt, hrsg, darmstadt, bengtson, augustus, rostovtzeff, roms, kaiserzeit, r6mischen

[18 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[18 words] socrates, plato, protagoras, knowledge, dialogue, justice, meno, gorgias, socratic, virtue, true, apology, euthyphro, himself, republic, thrasymachus, wisdom, things, callicles, truth, dialogues, sophists, crito, definition, vlastos, claim, irony, laws, xenophon, hippias

[18 words] pour, mais, nous, comme, cette, avec, sont, meme, deux, fait, bien, etre, aussi, elle, entre, tout, dont, leur, sans, autre, peut, etait, donc, avait, voir, autres, apres, ainsi, encore, chez

[18 words] schol, plut, frag, paus, arist, diod, athen, soph, alex, aesch, dion, strabo, pind, suidas, aristoph, fgrhist, hesych, plat, suda, quoted, pollux, apollod, suid, aristot, lycophron, phot, rhod, bibl, fgrh, serv

[17 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[16 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[15 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[15 words] money, property, paid, payment, amount, price, talents, land, sale, value, financial, cost, received, wealth, gold, private, treasury, public, taxes, drachmas, sold, denarii, payments, income, sesterces, silver, debt, funds, contract, loan

[15 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[14 words] pliny, letters, trajan, letter, vitruvius, sherwin-white, plinius, tacitus, octavius, correspondence, panegyricus, elder, fronto, natural_history, lipsius, epist, dialogus, nocturnal, minucius, eight-book, praef, plin, books, comum, mayhoff, lucubratio, recitatio, martial, angiportum, priscus

[14 words] gibbon, eskimo, copa, magdalenian, spurs, alaska, thule, sargent, decline_and_fall, palaeolithic, essai, observations, memoirs, mathiassen, france, punuk, hoffman, draft, bone, edward, berl, womersley, canada, piette, craddock, bodl, aurignacian, breuil, collins, alaskan

[12 words] inscription, legion, governor, trajan, legate, career, procurator, claudius, pir2, office, hadrian, reign, proconsul, attested, consular, legions, pflaum, dessau, name, africa, consul, julius, praefectus, vespasian, provinces, suff, equestrian, maximus, severus, praetorian

[12 words] hermes, diss, wilamowitz, studien, philologus, untersuchungen, stuttgart, literatur, gottingen, commentary, edition, heidelberg, philol, review, gnomon, dichtung, darmstadt, suppl, tapa, fraenkel, jaeger, repr, wiesbaden, norden, schmid, wilamowitz-moellendorff, amsterdam, dissertation, philosophie, uber

[12 words] xocl, linnaeus, xail, xcai, xoct, xaci, syst, theseus, systema, trittyen, xacl, xata, giraldi, xcti, barbari, danai, nymphae, xaxov, aristot, gessner, hederich, heller, muncker, amoen, naturae, ryss, xcal, clipeo, hagberg, hoefnagel

[11 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[11 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[11 words] king, ptolemy, kings, antiochos, royal, antiochus, egypt, ptolemaic, parthian, armenia, mithridates, arsinoe, ptolemies, alexandria, seleucid, kingdom, reign, hellenistic, antioch, throne, cleopatra, ptolemaios, parthians, philadelphus, euergetes, parthia, queen, polemo, title, tigranes

[11 words] cicero, quintilian, orator, rhetorical, rhetoric, oratory, speech, brutus, de_oratore, cato, orat, speeches, quint, latin, ciceronian, eloquence, gellius, dialogue, orators, seneca, crassus, declamation, antonius, rhet, brut, calvus, oratorical, herennium, auctor, laelius

[11 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[10 words] plutarch, diodorus, jacoby, demetrius, source, athenaeus, ephorus, story, theopompus, aristotle, plut, lives, fgrhist, sources, tradition, biography, moralia, themistocles, fgrh, dionysius, nepos, apollodorus, fragments, hellanicus, suda, diogenes, wehrli, timaeus, anecdote, historian

[10 words] text, translation, edition, volume, introduction, books, pages, commentary, illustrations, translations, works, index, volumes, useful, page, maps, texts, english, chapter, editions, latin, reader, translated, contains, authors, chapters, excellent, review, scholarship, full

[9 words] passage, kata, tovs, rpos, kara, trov, rovs, kalt, avrov, rapa, katl, tovto, repl, tols, words, aaaa, evov, passages, kacl, follows, evos, otov, rots, avtov, kcal, rept, elval, tovtov, rtov, a7ro

[9 words] aber, wird, durch, oder, einer, wenn, werden, diese, sind, noch, hier, sein, nach, dieser, kann, einen, haben, sondern, einem, doch, seiner, seine, selbst, dann, schon, denn, mehr, ganz, dieses, ohne

[8 words] dionysius, plato, longinus, thucydides, thuc, xenophon, demosthenes, prose, lysias, attic, herodotus, demetrius, caecilius, roberts, sublime, orators, antiphon, isocrates, isaeus, metathesis, treatise, soph, plat, comp, aristotle, hermogenes, polybius, hypsos, hell, dionysius_of_halicarnassus

[7 words] imperial, emperor, city, empire, local, official, public, provincial, status, officials, office, cities, emperors, provinces, governor, administration, freedmen, title, service, private, municipal, military, hadrian, augustus, period, rank, inscription, offices, reign, equestrian

[7 words] xenophon, sparta, spartan, pausanias, spartans, hell, lysander, agesilaus, plutarch, hellenica, king, cyrus, agis, helots, plut, spartiates, diodorus, ephors, cleomenes, kings, rhetra, anabasis, herodotus, paus, clearchus, messenia, messenians, messenian, agesilaos, ephoros

[7 words] callimachus, epigram, poem, epigrams, poet, poems, poetry, archilochus, hellenistic, poets, anth, simonides, theognis, lines, pfeiffer, aetia, fragment, meleager, callimachean, page, line, hymn, hipponax, poetic, tyrtaeus, palladas, literary, theocritus, elegy, epitaph

[7 words] france, bibliotheque, collection, lettres, ecole, siecle, gaule, jean, manuscrits, societe, nationale, acad, henri, grece, tome, grecs, insc, recueil, antiques, bagaudes, cernunnos, bordeaux, monnaies, travaux, saint, pierre, paul, ville, picard, lantier

[7 words] dead, orpheus, hades, underworld, admetus, alcestis, heracles, dreams, souls, dream, eurydice, sleep, tartarus, elysium, living, charon, earth, insomnia, protesilaus, lament, persephone, journey, orphic, afterlife, pheres, apollo, cerberus, thanatos, gates, pluto

[6 words] forms, latin, root, stem, suffix, words, brugmann, word, ending, indo-european, stems, sanskrit, analogy, meaning, verb, beside, vowel, roots, verbs, formation, languages, language, italic, compounds, phonetic, sing, suffixes, perfect, originally, nouns

[6 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[6 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[5 words] eius, erat, ante, inter, anno, inde, fuit, milia, livy, apud, annos, usque, urbem, deinde, erant, quoque, urbis, atque, dies, etiam, nunc, bellum, quem, autem, loco, romae, diem, castra, quia, quibus

[5 words] demosthenes, speech, speeches, isocrates, rhetoric, lysias, aeschines, rhetorical, gorgias, speaker, oration, orator, oratory, orators, antiphon, delivered, athens, aristotle, forensic, audience, written, palamedes, sophists, political, isokrates, helen, athenian, orations, blass, assembly

[5 words] aristotle, porphyry, proclus, boethius, commentary, quarterly, printed, great_britain, alexander, ross, plotinus, aristotelian, theophrastus, simplicius, metaphysics, works, oracles, jaeger, de_anima, philosophy, aristoteles, speusippus, categories, ammonius, aristote, damascius, doctrine, treatise, lamblichus, neoplatonic

[5 words] josephus, jews, jewish, philo, herod, jerusalem, synagogue, judaea, alexandria, hebrew, judaism, nicolaus, temple, justus, agrippa, esther, bellum, vita, antiquitates, palestine, romans, luke, hyrcanus, tiberias, sepphoris, abraham, moses, daphidas, haman, aristobulus