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Tusculanae Disputationes (Cicero)
the Tusculan Disputations
also: Tusculanae disputationes, Tusculan Disputations
Cicero's five books of dialogues on death, pain, grief, the passions, and the self-sufficiency of virtue for happiness. He summarizes them book by book in the proem to De Divinatione 2.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §4.82 the things we have discussed over these four days
Cicero sums up the four days of the Tusculan Disputations: contempt of death (Book 1), the bearing of pain (Book 2), the calming of distress (Book 3), and the other passions (this Book 4).