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16-02-2007
"The Birthday Book"
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 London, UK (LRB): The Birthday Book was written by the Roman scholar Censorinus for his friend Caerellius in 238 ad, and has recently been translated into English for the first time by Holt Parker. ‘Because you have no lack of precious gifts because of the virtue of your soul,’ Censorinus writes, ‘and I have no excess because of the thinness of my income, I have sent you this book (take it for what it’s worth) composed from my riches, and put the title “Birthday Present” on it.’ It’s hard not to see this as the Stoic equivalent of ‘Sorry I haven’t got you anything, but hey! I made you a card’ – though maybe that’s ungenerous of me.
For more information, please visit:
www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n04/jone01_.html
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