ABSTRACT
The man honoured with the symposium of April 1994 and with this collection is, of course, a Hellenist. Nevertheless, he has not just now and again invoked evidence from Latin authors; he has actually published on Latin material. I am thinking of his interesting contribution to the ‘Cicero on Tatnic’ conference, published in 1988. I, following his example, will try to show that studying Greek and Latin material in close conjunction is, in the case of the rise of Atticism, not only natural, but actually indispensable. 1
