In a popular Catholic coffee, you might have read some of his books about drinking in Catholicism or why Catholic see.

Dr. Dr. To drink with the saints, right?

Very personal.

I think one of my colleagues of the eyes actually contributed a entry to that with the opening.

Anyway, he's in Baylor, and he's currently translating Augustine's

casicchiacan dialogues and putting out an edition and he's been working on for a few years.

He says this about Cicero's relationship to Augustine, or Augustine's to Cicero's.

It is astonishing that the subject of Ciceroian influence on Augustine has yet to be adequately

explored.

The reason for this, in my opinion, springs from a particular assessment of Cicero's intellectual

caliber.

Cicero did not suffer gladly, quote, puny philosophers in his words, but ironically, it is precisely into this

category which he has been placed. Since the 19th century, Cicero has been dismissed as a second-rate

thinker incapable of teaching Augustine anything other than rhetorical flourishes. So the reason for this systemic culture-wide amnesia, I would argue, has much to do with

the bad faith actors of the intellectually avarant pseudo-traditions of modernity and

post-modernity in that world of letters.

And it also has more to do, I think also with Augustine's praise of Roman philosophers in general in the city of God, where he writes, the Greeks whose language is preeminent among the nations

have celebrated their writings with great acclaim.

Okay, good.

Greeks are not not celebrate themselves.

And Latin speakers, moved by their excellence for glory,

have been all the more eager to study them,

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