1. Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin.

2. This is also clearly expressed, with a simplicity that contrasts with Grotius’ Ciceronian turns of phrase, in the Latin adage — which I believe everyone is familiar with — ubi societas ibi jus.

3. Augustan Age, one of the most illustrious periods in Latin literary history, from approximately 43 bc to ad 18; together with the preceding Ciceronian period (q.v.), it forms the Golden Age (q.v.) of Latin literature.

4. The poet's torpor, his "acedia" (a humanist version of "accidie", the sin of sloth, related here to the Ciceronian "Aegritude"), has now brought the greatest doctor from his eternal meditations, and the resulting dialogue – with Truth silently in attendance, her face lighting the alternating lines of thought in this exemplary doubling