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Cicero’s Studied Passions: The Letters of 46 B.C.E.

The politics of Latin literature has been a fruitful area of research for some time.2 The domains of politics and literature contain a number of important moments of convergence. One moment of intercommunication between them is provided by the Latin word studium. The term, at its most general, means something like “zealous application.” More typical than the general case are specific affective variants; one commonly ends up translating studium with a word that designates either political partisanship or scholarly activity. And yet, the same Latin word is there on the page in either case. On the one hand, one is never inclined to mistake an instance of the word studium for literary studia in a political passage, nor, conversely, is one inclined to translate studium as “partisanship” when it occurs in a discussion of the scholarly otium, “leisure,” of Roman gentlemen. Nevertheless, heterogeneous uses of words like studium can indeed be found as awkward yokemates in passages where one jumps between political