The recent publication by Éditions Les Belles Lettres of all of Cicero's correspondence, i.e. nearly a thousand letters, gathered in a very beautiful volume of more than a thousand pages, richly documented and commented on
by Jean-Noël Robert, is the occasion to come back to a subject that has never
been totally enlightened: what did Cicero really think of Caesar?
There is no doubt that Cicero always saw himself as the champion of the old republican freedom.
As such, he felt a constant distrust of the dictator (a legal function, supposed to remain provisional but that Caesar, from February 14, 1944, arrogated to himself for life).
And he encouraged Brutus and his friends in the Senate, skillfully blowing on the embers of hatred and resentment the Quirites harbored for the one they suspected of wanting to overthrow the Republic for the benefit of royalty, down the path of tyrannicide, which ends up being fulfilled on that fatal day of the Ides of March 1944.
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