Note 12 — Chapter VII · CICERO’S RESPONSE TO EXPERIENCE
Reading edition
He does, however, not use those terms: cf. Fam. xi. 6: adpetam huius rei principatum; Fam. xii, 24, 2 (Jan. 43): me principem senatui populoque Romano professus sum; Fam. x. 28: totem rem publicam sum amplexus.