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particular historical circumstances and with given person, place
and time. With the advent of the printed book grammatica
surged back to a dominance it had enjoyed before
scholasticism and the moderni and the new universities had
swept it aside. Scholasticism in ancient Rome was also an oral
affair, and Bonner points out Cicero’s letter to Atticus in which
Cicero mentions a list of theses which he himself declaimed in
private:
They are almost exclusively concerned with the subject of
tyrants and tyranny—‘Should one work for the tyrant’s
downfall, even though it may jeopardize the State, or
merely prevent his overthrower’s elevation?’ . . . ‘Should
one attempt to help one’s country, when subject to a
tyrant, by opportune speech rather than by force of
arms?’ There are eight such subjects, which Cicero says