BBQ Sauce, you are wrong. Marcus Tullius Cicero's concept of the Roman state/Mos Maiorum was a technical term of Platonic and Aristotelian concepts of politeia that most closely resembles the term commonwealth. Cicero was a great synthesizer of Greek thought as he studied Theophrastus, Posidonius, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Thales, Pythagoras and blended it with Hortensius, Cato 'the Elder', etc so as to apply such concepts to the Roman mode of life.
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07-04-2009, 01:53 AM #11
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