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M. Calidius and the Atticists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. E. Douglas
Affiliation:
Universtiy of Southampton

Extract

The object of this paper is to question the established view that the orator M. Calidius was an Atticist. I propose to argue (i) that the term ‘Atticist’ should be reserved for the coterie centring on Calvus, which attacked Cicero, and was attacked by him in Brutus and Orator, and (ii) that our evidence for the oratory of Calidius does not warrant the inference that he was in any way associated with, or a forerunner of, that coterie.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1955

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