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

Cicero, in his Tusculan Questions, iii.

From Project Gutenberg

Occasionally we find specimens of those short maxims which probably led the Augustan critics to attribute to him the character of gravitas, such as the Serit arbores quae alteri saeclo prosint, quoted by Cicero in the Tusculan Questions, and this line— Saepe est etiam sub palliolo sordido sapientia.

From Project Gutenberg