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Cicero, De finibus 5.86: Back to the Codices
- Classical World
- Classical Association of the Atlantic States
- Volume 100, Number 3, Spring 2007
- pp. 279-281
- 10.1353/clw.2007.0027
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All editors from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day have deemed De finibus 5.86 corrupt. In particular, they have transposed the words ut ait Theophrastus, and done so without good reason. Left in place, the words recall a turning point in a Theophrastean dialogue (On Happiness) similar to that in which they occur in Cicero's De finibus.