# Tusculanae Disputationes 1.34

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi049.perseus-lat2, Book 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/tusculanae-disputationes/1.34

loquor de principibus; quid? poëtae nonne post mortem nobilitari volunt? unde ergo illud: Aspicite, o cives, senis Enni imaginis formam: Hic vestrum panxit maxima facta patrum? mercedem gloriae flagitat ab is quorum patres adfecerat gloria, idemque: Nemo me lacrimis … Cur? volito vivos per ora virum. sed quid poëtas? opifices post mortem nobilitari volunt. quid enim Phidias sui similem speciem inclusit in clupeo Minervae, cum inscribere nomen non liceret? quid? nostri philosophi nonne in is libris ipsis, quos scribunt de contemnenda gloria, sua nomina inscribunt?

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Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, ed. Max Pohlenz. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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