Modern editions print the surviving De re publica, including the Dream of Scipio, as a public republican myth
Twentieth-century editions of De re publica put a fragmentary republican dialogue, including Scipio’s dream, into student Latin-English. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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Twentieth-century editions of De re publica put a fragmentary republican dialogue, including Scipio’s dream, into student Latin-English. It is not a recovered 51 BCE autograph complete.
Context
A mixed constitution heading can support later republican talk. Medium confidence. Loss of most of the work is the limit.
Cicero is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
A printed Dream of Scipio is not a constitution, and not a complete book from 51 BCE.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Cicero
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.28 · verified
Named orator as heading of later editions. Editors, printers, and later republican readers publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactModern editions print the surviving De re publica, including the Dream of Scipio, as a public republican myth
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1928 · verified
A printed Dream of Scipio is not a constitution, and not a complete book from 51 BCE.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.24 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.LacusCurtius — Cicero textsUniversity of Chicago / LacusCurtius · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — CiceroStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorCicero
- contributed toFactModern editions print the surviving De re publica, including the Dream of Scipio, as a public republican myth
- strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Modern editions print the surviving De re publica, including the Dream of Scipio, as a public republican myth. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cic-de-re-publica-later
https://factrail.ai/facts/cic-de-re-publica-later
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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