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The Comment Ariolum Petitionis1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. P. V. D. Balsdon
J. P. V. D. Balsdon
Affiliation:
Exeter College, Oxford
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1. The Commentariolum Petitionis is not in the Codex Mediceus of Cicero's correspondence with his brother Quintus, but it appears at the end of the letters to Quintus in the other manuscripts. It starts in the normal manner of a letter (QVINTVS MARCO FRATRIS. D.) and is, or purports to be, a collection of tips on canvassing set in the particular context of M. Cicero's consular candidature in 64: a composition of his brother Quintus. It is printed as no. 12 in Tyrrell and Purser's collection of Cicero's Letters.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1963 , pp. 242 - 250
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1963

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page 243 note 1 Ad Fam. 16. 16 (to Marcus); 16. 8, 26, and 27 (to Tiro).Google Scholar

page 248 note 1 R.-E. vii. 672, nos. 5 and 7.Google Scholar

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page 249 note 2 Asc. In Cornelian. 62 C.

page 249 note 3 Cass. Dio 36. 44. if.; Plut. Cic. 9. 4–7.Google Scholar

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