The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

their peak in the afternoon.

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This is John Batchelor, conversation with Josiah Osgood,

professor of classics at Georgetown University.

His new book is Lawless Republic.

It's the rise and triumph and fall of a man named Marcus Tullius Cicero.

We remember him as Cicero.

The great speaker.

Here, Josiah talks about how his students respond to Cicero,

teaching them to read and translate, and then eventually to appreciate Cicero's sharp tongue and his ability to tell tales that want him in court but made

enemies. And then he made some bad choices. However, he does make you laugh when he puts people

down in court.

Never permitted today.

But then it was magic.

Josiah's good on Cicero and his ability to put down his opponents rhetorically.

Much more of this later tonight.

Yeah, so Cicero wrote beautiful Latin, and he's used to teach Latin.

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