Body Beauty Bookshelves: Cicero’s pegmata and les gens d’Uterpan’s “Library”

In a letter to Atticus (Att. 4. 8. 2), Cicero expresses his delight at the installation of some new bookshelves in an oddly convoluted and high-flown fashion: postea uero, quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit, mens addita uidetur meis aedibus. qua quidem in re mirifica opera Dionysi et Menophili tui fuit. nihil uenustius quam illa tua … Continue reading Body Beauty Bookshelves: Cicero’s pegmata and les gens d’Uterpan’s “Library”