{
 "corpus": "cicero",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-13/03",
 "origin": {
  "repo": "PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit",
  "commit": "master @ 2026-09-07 (raw.githubusercontent.com; pin at deposit)",
  "paths": [
   "data/phi0474/phi048",
   "data/phi0474/phi045",
   "data/phi0474/phi054"
  ]
 },
 "edition": "Cicero, De finibus; Academica; Topica (Perseus canonical-latinLit, perseus-lat)",
 "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library); underlying editions public domain",
 "fetched": "2026-09-07",
 "normalization": "flat lines from TEI; teiHeader, note, app, rdg, bibl, speaker labels stripped; one file per work; lines without letters dropped",
 "works": {
  "count": 3,
  "units": "one file per work",
  "per-work": "text/<id>.txt",
  "list": [
   {
    "id": "phi048",
    "title": "Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum",
    "tokens": 47241,
    "lines": 656
   },
   {
    "id": "phi045",
    "title": "Cicero, Academica",
    "tokens": 4879,
    "lines": 95
   },
   {
    "id": "phi054",
    "title": "Cicero, Topica",
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   }
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 },
 "verified_loci": [
  "Acad. II 119 (flumen orationis aureum)",
  "De fin. V 12 (the exoteric and the commentarii)",
  "Top. 1–3 (the Topics as Cicero received it)"
 ],
 "why_seated": "THE FIRST ROMAN READER. Cicero knows Aristotle by the dialogues and the exoterica and not by the treatises: the Rome hinge read from the reader's side, for the two survivals (The First Draft §7) and the Alexander seam (§28)."
}