I came across an unfootnoted comment that Pliny NH 5.73 (the passage on
the Essenes) has rhetorical flourishes reminiscent of Cicero, specifically in
its fourfold description of the Essenes (avoiding women, or any sexual urges,
without money, having only palmtrees for company [in Greek, by the way,
"kindred of the phoenix"]). Could anyone point me to some bibliography on
this point, or on the high literary content of this passage generally?
Thanks,
Russell Gmirkin
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