“ ...to learn is to form an internal model of the external world.”
--- Stanislas Dehaene. “How We Learn.”
...there was no authentic freedom of speech under Caesar’s domination of Rome. The lack of such libertas inevitably raises suspicions that political speech cannot be taken as reflecting a speaker’s intentions, whether these doubts are founded or not. The process of interpreting a speaker’s intentions is unavoidably complicated, and not a simple matter of divining his voluntas from a text. We become suspicious readers dealing with ambiguities that exist on two registers: the intentions behind a particular orator’s words, and how the enigmatic Caesar might have interpreted those words.
John Dugan. Cicero and the Politics of Ambiguity: Interpreting the Pro Marcello, 2013.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641895.003.0013
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