The concept of analogy in the work of different authors of the Roman Period
Keywords:
analogy, comparison, Cicero, Suetonius, Aulus GelliusAbstract
This paper aims to discuss how certain authors of the Roman period helped to spread the use of the term analogy — the main point of the famous Greek controversy about the origin of language — in Latin: Cicero (106-43 BC), who was influenced by the ancient literary monuments and an exemplary orator for the Latin rhetoric, lived in a time of incipient Roman literary language in which the rules of good speaking and writing were taught and followed by writers from different areas; Suetonius (75-160 AD), a great Latin historian was a private secretary of the emperor Hadrian and devoted his last years to the preparation of an encyclopedic work on the history of language and literature; Aulus Gellius (born 130 AD), a rich source of information about the knowledge and studies of his days, wrote about literature, philosophy, dialectic, arithmetic, law, history and others.
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