I recently corresponded with Professor Bond regarding this statement:
"Cicero cited Polybius in support of his view that while historians had to stick to the truth, a biographer could take more liberties with the facts (Letters to Friends 5.12)."
Cicero is indeed shameless in this letter to Lucceius but but he does not provide such a citation to Polybius in support of this no-doubt true view of ancient biographies.
I recently corresponded with Professor Bond regarding this statement:
"Cicero cited Polybius in support of his view that while historians had to stick to the truth, a biographer could take more liberties with the facts (Letters to Friends 5.12)."
Cicero is indeed shameless in this letter to Lucceius but but he does not provide such a citation to Polybius in support of this no-doubt true view of ancient biographies.