'Conscientia' certissima scientia: alle origini di una definizione  pseudo-ciceroniana

Antonio Lamarra; Francesco Verde

doi:10.19283/lph-20142.407

'Conscientia' certissima scientia: alle origini di una definizione pseudo-ciceroniana

Authors

Antonio Lamarra CNR - ILIESI
Francesco Verde CNR - ILIESI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19283/lph-20142.407

Keywords:

Conscientia, Cicero, Pro Milone, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Robert I Estienne

Abstract

In several historical-philosophical dictionaries and monographs we can find the definition of conscientia as certissima scientia attributed to Cicero’s Pro Milone. However, in Cicero’s work there is no definition of that kind. This paper tries to investigate how it is possible that this definition was attribute to Cicero’s Pro Milone.

English title: 'Conscientia' certissima scientia: the origins of a pseudo-Ciceronian definition