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Tusculanae disputationes

work by Cicero

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Damocles

In Damocles
…story is related in Cicero’s Tusculanae disputationes (“Conversations at Tusculum”), Book V.
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Tusculum

In Tusculum
…composed several philosophical works, including Tusculanae disputationes (“Conversations at Tusculum”), there. In the early medieval period, Tusculum was an important stronghold, and its counts were influential at Rome. The Romans finally destroyed it during a war in 1191.
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