Pompeii or Pro Lege Manilia, an important speech because it marked CiceroAEs transformation into a politician and helped to lead Rome into the Third
Mithridatic War.
He and others do their best to evade confronting a heaven and earth that "all from the prime foundation," as Terence has earlier opined in XLVIII.13; everyone tries to "see the world as the world's not," and to see himself as a "sterling lad." But this egocentric escapism, imaged as drinking "ale" to "justify God's ways to man," is a self-deceptive "game" or "tale" that turns out to be a "lie," and is "therefore" a major portion of the "ill" or "ail" that predominates over the "good" in the world." Instead of indulging in this form of "ail," which will land one in literal and figurative "muck," one should "face" the "ill" by a
Mithridatic training for it.
Syria became a Roman Province in 64 BC courtesy of Pompey the Great, following the third
Mithridatic war.
Artifacts under study include Athenian, Hellenistic, Aegean and Rhodian amphora and those from Sinope and Thasos,
Mithridatic coins, a monumental building at Panskoe I and a royal grave.
He encouraged them to vote for a new law giving him command over the
Mithridatic task force.
In order to prepare the way for what I think is Collingwood's resolution of this apparent inconsistency, I want to consider the '
Mithridatic' conception of art, so-called after Mithradates VI, King of Pontus (131-63 BC), who survived attempts to poison him by taking small doses of poison which built up his immunity.