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Updated: May 26, 2025

Up gets our dandified young gentleman, and throws in my teeth my having been at Baiæ. It wasn't true, but what did that matter to him? "It is as though you were to say," replied I, "that I had been in disguise!" "What business," quoth he, "has an Arpinate with hot baths?" "Say that to your patron," said I, "who coveted the watering-place of an Arpinate." For you know about the marine villa.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1: The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

We meet the traces of this class of landlords, wherever a national movement appears in politics, and wherever literature puts forth any fresh growth; from it the patriotic opposition to the new monarchy drew its best strength; to it belonged Varro, Lucretius, Catullus; and nowhere perhaps does the comparative freshness of this landlord-life come more characteristically to light than in the graceful Arpinate introduction to the second book of Cicero's treatise De Legibus a green oasis amidst the fearful desert of that equally empty and voluminous writer.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

Born of good yeoman stock in the village of Cereatae in the Arpinate territory, he had passed a boyhood which derived no polish from the refinements, and no taint from the corruptions, of city life. In his case there was no puzzling discrepancy between the outer and the inner man.

A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge - A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate

We meet the traces of this class of landlords, wherever a national movement appears in politics, and wherever literature puts forth any fresh growth; from it the patriotic opposition to the new monarchy drew its best strength; to it belonged Varro, Lucretius, Catullus; and nowhere perhaps does the comparative freshness of this landlord-life come more characteristically to light than in the graceful Arpinate introduction to the second book of Cicero's treatise De Legibus a green oasis amidst the fearful desert of that equally empty and voluminous writer.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

In this sense the Arpinate landlord Marcus Cicero, the father of the orator, said that among the Romans, just as among Syrian slaves, each was the less worth, the more he understood Greek. National Decomposition This national decomposition is, like the whole age, far from pleasing, but also like that age significant and momentous.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution

In this sense the Arpinate landlord Marcus Cicero, the father of the orator, said that among the Romans, just as among Syrian slaves, each was the less worth, the more he understood Greek. National Decomposition This national decomposition is, like the whole age, far from pleasing, but also like that age significant and momentous.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)