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Commentarius consulatus sui
memoir of his consulship
also: commentarium consulatus mei, the memoir of my consulship, hypomnema
Cicero's prose memoir (commentarius / Greek hypomnema) of his consulship of 63 BC, composed first in Greek and sent to Atticus in 60 BC, with a projected Latin version; a self-promoting account of the suppression of Catiline. Distinct from the verse De Consulatu Suo.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.19 §10 the memoir of my consulship composed in Greek
Cicero's prose self-history of 63 BC (a commentarius / Greek hypomnema), written first in Greek and sent to Atticus, with a Latin version promised. It is distinct from the verse poem on the same theme mentioned just below.
- Ad Atticum 1.20 §6 I have sent you my consulship completed in Greek
The Greek prose memoir of his consulship, again (see Att. 1.19.10); Cicero jokes that Atticus, as a connoisseur of Greek, will be jealous of so good a Greek work by a Roman.
- Ad Atticum 2.1 §1 the memoir of my consulship written in Greek
Cicero's prose self-history of his consulship of 63 BC (a commentarius / Greek hypomnema). Both he and Atticus had written Greek accounts of it; Cicero teases that his own is the more ornate.