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History Today @[email protected] · 2026-08-13 · 09:05 UTC

As #Rome was divided by civil war #Cicero found himself torn. #Caesar was his old adversary, but it was politically and personally expedient to support him.

🔒 This article from the August issue is still available in the archive

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John Bronze @[email protected] · 2026-07-24 · 06:54 UTC

The Reality of Dreams

Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/

#agamemnon #ancientegypt #ancientgreece #ancientmesopotamia #ancientrome #aristotle

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-23 · 18:43 UTC

A quotation from Epicharmus

I don’t want to die, but I don’t worry about being dead.

[Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil æstimo.]

Epicharmus of Kos (c. 540 – c. 450 BC) Greek dramatist and philosopher
Fragment 230 K-A = B 11 DK [tr. Douglas (1985)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/epicharmus/85106/

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History Today @[email protected] · 2026-07-23 · 15:07 UTC

The new issue of History Today is in UK stores now.

Featuring: #Caesar and #Cicero, Franklin D. Roosevelt, #CharlesDarwin on gender, Brazil’s free press, and more.

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Flow im Ohr @[email protected] · 2026-05-10 · 06:03 UTC

Ist Freundschaft nicht eine vollwertige Beziehung, bloß ohne das körperliche halt, oder gibt es da einfach Abstufungen? Ist es ein fluides Spektrum irgendwo zwischen zufälligem Treffen, Bekanntschaft und bestem Freund dem ich meine dunkelsten Geheimnisse anvertraue? Natürlich ist es das. Freundschaften muss man gar nicht unbedingt genau definieren, entweder sie gibt einem ein positives […]

https://blog.hamdorf.org/freundschaft/

#abschied #aristoteles #aufmerksamkeit #beziehung #cicero #dunbarzahl

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-23 · 21:38 UTC

A quotation from Cicero

AUDITOR: By Hercules, I prefer to be wrong with Plato […] than to be right with those idiots.

[Errare mehercule malo cum Platone […] quam cum istis vera sentire.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 17 (1.17) / sec. 39 (1.39) (45 BC) [tr. @sententiq (2012)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-02 · 17:55 UTC

A quotation from Cicero

The people were certain that their freedom was at risk. Their leaders did not agree.

[Populus libertatem agi putabat suam. Dissentiebant principes.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 48 / sec. 103 (56-02 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-05 · 22:24 UTC

A quotation from Cicero

But there is in fact nobody who is so hostile to the Muses that he would not readily allow his own deeds to be immortalized in verse.

[Neque enim quisquam est tam aversus a Musis, qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum facile praeconium patiatur. ]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 9 / sec. 20 (62 BC) [tr. Guinach (1962)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-07-24 · 16:23 UTC

A quotation from Cicero

He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.

[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-06-26 · 16:34 UTC

A quotation from Cicero

Yet however grim circumstances are, human beings, if they really are human, occasionally relax.

[Homines quamvis in turbidis rebus sint, tamen, si modo homines sunt, interdum animis rexantur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 16 / sec. 39 (2.16/2.39) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Grant (1960)]

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