Abstract
ABSTRACTReadings of Cicero'sad Fam. 15 commonly focus on Cicero's bid for asupplicatioin 51b.c.e., which supplies this book of letters with one of its most dominant refrains. Yet this emphasis sits oddly with the book's position within the letter collection as a whole. This article argues that whoever organized the books of thead Fam.into sequence has invested the idea of thesupplicatio,and of Cicero's aspiration for a triumph, with a new metaphorical significance that it would not have had at the time of the letters’ writing. My reading attempts to locate this retrospective significance and to trace the portrait of Cicero that emerges from it.
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