Philosophy · 54 BC · Rome

On His Times · lost

De Temporibus Suis

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De Temporibus Suis (“On His Times”), an autobiographical poem in three books from about 54 BC — the sequel to On His Consulship, treating the exile and the return. It survives in only a few fragments; the page that follows is an editorial note in place of a translation.

What's known

Poem in three books on Cicero's exile and return; survives only in a few fragments. Status "lost": no continuous text survives and no clean source exists (not in Perseus or IntraText); the english_file is an editorial note, not a translation. See lost-work handling in CLAUDE.md.

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