La cristianización del pensamiento ciceroniano en el "De officiis" de San Ambrosio

Abstract

This paper examines the variety of procedures in the use that Saint Ambrose does of the Cicero’s text, which cannot be reduced to a single model –synthesis, imitation, transformation, substitution–. It is exemplified by means of the comparison with the conception of verecundia and the fortitudo in book I. For the first time St. Ambrose applies ideas and terminology from military service to the development of the virtue of fortitude.