{"id":1001,"date":"2014-02-06T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T04:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2014-02-07T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T05:00:38","slug":"casaubon-and-cicero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Casaubon &#8211; and Cicero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/what-have-they-decided.html\">Laudator Temporis Acti<\/a>, Michael Gilleland quotes a witticism of Casaubon. It looks to me like a far more succinct variation on a story Cicero tells in his <i>De Legibus<\/i> &#8211; or rather has his character Atticus tell, since it&#8217;s a dialogue. I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curculio.org\/Ioci\/november.pdf#2\">the story<\/a> as the second item on my Ancient Jokes page eleven years ago. (I hope to restart the page at some point, but as a searchable database.) I wonder whether the learned Casaubon was alluding to Cicero, and if so, whether he expected his hearers to recognize the allusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Laudator Temporis Acti, Michael Gilleland quotes a witticism of Casaubon. It looks to me like a far more succinct variation on a story Cicero tells in his De Legibus &#8211; or rather has his character Atticus tell, since it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,44],"tags":[211,48,210,212],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-jokes","category-latin-literature","tag-atticus","tag-cicero","tag-isaac-casaubon","tag-michael-gilleland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}