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Yankee06
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What have we learned in 2,065 years?
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4/25/2010 1:13:18 PM
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Spent many nights in high school trying to translate Cicero. Usually ended by copying from a buddy.
-Some question about the origin of above quote. Although the above quote in my mind certainly describes what congress should be doing, instead of what it is doing, scholars can't seem to find it in Cicero's works, although some of his quotes carry similar intent.
By the way, anyone thnk there is even one credible orator in today's congress?
In checking out above quote this is what I found:
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. The mobs should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence.
One scholar (John H. Collins, Professor of History at Northern Illinois University) stated: It actually originated in A Pillar of Iron (1965), Taylor Caldwell's fictionalized account of the life of the senator. (In fact, Collins noted that it was on page 483 of the edition he had in hand.)
Collins held that the alleged quotation "is totally without documentation," and that "the great bulk of [Caldwell's] quotations are false." He further observed that "[a] historical novelist has a perfect right to put invented conversations and anecdotes into a novel, but should not represent these inventions as authentic history."
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