November 3, 2014
Gérard Salamon, « Lettres et discours de Cicéron : regards croisés sur les années 58-56 », Interférences, ID : 10.4000/interferences.5496
In his letters Cicero presents his departure from Rome as a fault or an error. In his speeches on the contrary he says he voluntarily chose to leave Rome to save the Republic threatened by the attacks of his enemies. Around the motif of sacrifice (deuotio), he methodically built a version of events intended to allow him to leave up his period of ‟exile”.