Tusculan

/ ˈtʌskjʊlən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the ancient Italian city of Tusculum or its inhabitants

Example Sentences

Most of these characters had been earlier described by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations.

From Scientific American

Cicero obtained public grants for the restoration of his house and of his Tusculan and Formian villas, but very far from enough to cover the losses he had suffered.

From Project Gutenberg

Pliny, in his account of his Tusculan villa, describes his gardens decorated with "figures of different animals, cut in box: evergreens clipped into a thousand different shapes; sometimes into letters forming different names; walls and hedges of cut box, and trees twisted into a variety of forms."

From Project Gutenberg

I do not recollect if, when he wrote his 'Tusculan Disputations', his own Tullia was dead.

From Project Gutenberg

Her logic was better than that of Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations, but she admitted that such lasting felicity could exist only between two beings who lived together, and loved each other with constant affection, healthy in mind and in body, enlightened, sufficiently rich, similar in tastes, in disposition, and in temperament.

From Project Gutenberg