我们为何对罗马帝国念念不忘[精读]  

We Can't Get Over The Roman Empire

作　　者：Tom Holland 邢远(译) 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《英语文摘》2023年第12期40-46,共7页English Digest

摘　　要：公元前59年,罗马最著名的雄辩家西塞罗这样写道:“比起恶评者现在的说法,我更担心千年后世人对我的评价。”这番话虽是西塞罗私下说给密友提图斯·庞波尼乌斯·阿提库斯的,不过在当时,无论是谁读到这句话都不会感到惊。西塞罗那令人难以忍受的自负让他在同胞中声名狼籍。他觉得有人会在他去世一千年后还记得他,对于这样的念头,罗马人会普遍当笑话来看待。(1)"I worry far more what the judgement on me will be in a 1,o00 years time than what the trolls are saying today."So wrote Cicero,Rome's most celebrated orator,in 59 BC.Although the comment was made privately to his close friend,Titus Pomponius Atticus,no one would have been surprised to read it.Cicero was notorious among his fellow citizens for the insufferable quality of his conceit.The notion that anyone would remember him a millennium after his death would have been greeted in Rome with widespread hilarity。

关 键 词：西塞罗 罗马帝国 雄辩家 提图斯 阿提库斯 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学]