lost work written year work written grief death daughter occurred february year known work inspired greek philosopher ancient work grief structure probably similar series letter fragments work survive having quoted makes note work letter popular piece writing loss widely accepted distinct work transmitted earlier literary tradition romans late republic italian scholar claimed discovered non version scholars agree work fraud hoax modern methods background marcus january december ancient roman philosopher politician famous skills came wealthy municipal family roman equestrian order widely considered rome greatest premier prose golden age latin august february daughter died winter giving birth second son caused period deep mourning decided stay friend time library reading books dealt overcoming grief found relocated villa composed time wrote famed lost dialogue later opined written attempt heal emotionally benefit mourning experiencing sadness composition reference christian theologian letter concerning death suggests work heavily based greek philosopher ancient work grief argues general outline based structure letter sent following death structure reply little remains work appear piece addressed novel idea deserves god notes order plan work recognized gods roman public order win public concludes build shrine extant pieces fragments seven preserved early christian author work divine work excerpt point argue actually accept christianity realizing criticized wrote applauded paralleling albeit coincidentally bible says times quotes preserved criticized lack context notes partial quotations order frame wrote easily ideas excerpts preserved sections quoted important reference work found aforementioned letter addressed noted contained references men showed equal sorrow war set forth book legacy work major importance today widely accepted distinct work transmitted earlier literary tradition romans late republic work supposedly survived 15th century claimed discovered copy text italy italian scholar claimed discovered non version news met excitement scholars reading work began argue manuscript fraud vocal continued defend work death mentioning different belief text scholar later claimed letter admitted deathbed large academic community concluded version discovered genuine document later earned pseudo despite gradual condemnation work accusation created argued pseudo probably genuine work reasoned claimed found copy work close possible simply found text proposed idea pseudo contained extant fragments work true lost replaced distant past read mistakenly assumed false rediscovered believed genuine finally argued man high character spent life editing fragments completely character linguistic techniques test document paper differentiated types latin writing style new latin popular fifteenth sixteenth centuries sought emulate style argued pseudo devoid new latin accepted genuine work collected classical latin authors new latin authors compared methods concluded text pseudo extremely text likely written renaissance classical times furthermore study provided evidence work matched closely style new latin writers suggesting created document
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