Ad fontes. Ad fontes ("to the sources") was the general cry of the Renaissance humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the medieval Latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had acquired in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire.They looked to golden age Latin literature, and especially to Cicero in prose and Virgil in poetry, as the arbiters …

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