Book contents
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: First Thoughts on Language and Nature
- Chapter 1 Posidonius’ Linguistic Naturalism and Its Philosophical Pedigree
- Chapter 2 Lucilius on Latin Spelling, Grammar, and Usage
- Chapter 3 Nigidius Figulus’ Naturalism
- Chapter 4 Naturalism in Morphology
- Chapter 5 What’s Hecuba to Him?
- Chapter 6 Linguistic Naturalism in Cicero’s Academica
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style
- Chapter 8 Natural Law and Natural Language in the First Century BCE
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum
Chapter 3 - Nigidius Figulus’ Naturalism
Between Grammar and Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2019
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: First Thoughts on Language and Nature
- Chapter 1 Posidonius’ Linguistic Naturalism and Its Philosophical Pedigree
- Chapter 2 Lucilius on Latin Spelling, Grammar, and Usage
- Chapter 3 Nigidius Figulus’ Naturalism
- Chapter 4 Naturalism in Morphology
- Chapter 5 What’s Hecuba to Him?
- Chapter 6 Linguistic Naturalism in Cicero’s Academica
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style
- Chapter 8 Natural Law and Natural Language in the First Century BCE
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum
Summary
‘A frustratingly mysterious figure, though he was a friend of Cicero and praetor in 58’ (Rawson 1985: 94), Nigidius Figulus died in exile, in May or June 45, before Cicero could utter any oratio ad clementiam Caesaris in his favour. Nevertheless, in the extant beginning of his Timaeus (§1 = test. 9 Swoboda), Cicero included a vibrant eulogy of his friend, whose character well suited that of the Pythagorean Timaeus of Locri Epizephyrii.1
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