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After the loss of his beloved daughter, Cicero claimed he'd written a consolation letter to himself so moving that “I talked myself out of depression”. But the letter was lost until it appeared in Venice in the Renaissance. Or did it? Do historians think the "Consolatio" is real?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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