<p rend="Plain Text">Three Athenian philosophers come as Athenian envoys to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a></p>
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The embassy mentioned in this extract from Aulus Gellius (vi. 14. 8–10) took place in 155; but, since P. related the dispute between <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Athens&groupId=379&placeId=715">Athens</a> and Oropus in a single passage (cf. xxxii. 11. 5 n.), the passage in P. describing this embassy may have stood in Ol. 155, 3 = 158/7, i.e. in book xxxii between xxxii. 11. 9 and xxxii. 13 (see p. 40). The visit of the three philosophers was famous; cf. Cic. Acad. ii. 137;
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de or. ii. 155; Tusc. iv. 5; Att. xii. 23. 2; Fin. ii. 59; Pliny, Nat. hist. vii. 112; Plut. Cato mai. 22; Aelian, Var. hist. iii. 17; Lact. Hist. v. 14. 3–5; Macrob. i. 5. 14 (based on Gellius).
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