...erect a temple, nor can the intention be rooted out of my heart. I want to avoid all the appearance of a tomb, not so much on account of the penalty of the law, as that I may gain my end in consecrating the memory of my daughter, which I may do, should the temple...

...this question. •• DLXXVI I (A xn, 36) TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) ASTURA (2 MAY) I WISH to have a shrine built, and that wish cannot be rooted out of my heart....not so much on account of the penalty of the law as 1 During April Cicero seems to have been at or near Rome. See p. 227. * A lex Cornelia of the dictator...

...piece of ground where he can build a fanuni, ie a shrine, to her spirit. " I wish to have a shrine built, and that wish cannot be rooted out of my heart. I am anxious to avoid any likeness to a tomb ... in order to attain as nearly as possible to an apotheosis." 2 A little further on he calls these...

...for this is Cicero's own statement. "I am determined," he says,* "to build a shrine and to avoid all likeness to a tomb, not so much on account of the penalty of the law as most effectively to accomplish AiroOtaxrK." Professor Reid seeks to avoid this fatal objection by supposing...

...for this is Cicero's own statement. "I am determined," he says,8 "to build a shrine and to avoid all likeness to a tomb, not so much on account of the penalty of the law as most effectively to accomplish <«ro0£W«." Professor Reid seeks to avoid this fatal objection by...

...not a tomb (sepulcbrum) but a shrine (fanum). " I wish to have a shrine built," he tells his friend " and that wish cannot be rooted out of my heart. I...law as in order to attain as nearly as possible to apotheosis."1 Cicero's normal attitude towards religion is displayed in the treatise On the Nature...