Another of classical philology's wildest dreams is on the verge of coming true. Every so often, something lost forever suddenly re-appears.
On the eve of humanism, Petrarch rediscovered the letters of Cicero and sections of Livy. A few decades later, Poggio Bracciolini resurrected Lucretius and Quintilian.
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