Word: atticus
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...have recently been reading some of your letters to T. Pomponius Atticus. Are you surprised? And here I would ask you: Did you mean these epistles one day to be given to the public? I should doubt it. But whether yes or no the trick is done. Leave such things to our age. Your life, dear friend, is quite an open book! And now, but only because I love you, I tell you that some of your remarks to L. Lucceius, the historian, pleading that he speak favorably of you--even beyond the truth if necessary make a pretty immodest...
...more conventional plea, "In Defence of Verse Form," though less bizarre, shows in its frequent graceful lines more promise of actual power. Timotheus' lyre and Pope's lines on Atticus do consort incongruously enough with Hudibras and Keat's urn and the other members of this cento; yet, though the poet's head as well as heart be "poor-rhyming," he vallantly says what he thinks. New wine, if strong, should not be put in old bottles, but when weak, it may gain flavor from the less...
...Pope's characterization of Addison as Atticus in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot just...
...Life and Character of Titus Pomponius Atticus...