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\"An eloquent man, and a lover of his country..\" - AK_Jenny - 03-07-2012

So I've seen the quote from Plutarch, of Augustus giving that praise of Cicero years after his death... but I'm wondering. Has anyone ever said *which* book of Cicero's it was that Augustus found his grandson reading?

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cicero*.html#49.5