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grbs-211	Lateiner, Donald	Signifying Names and Other Ominous Accidental Utterances in Classical Historiography	2005	23	.pdf	application/pdf	8439	511	62	Cicero’s efforts show that irresistible entertainment emerged from signifying names, even in supposedly serious judicial venues.46 Historical incidents hinge on such names and occasionally show life imitating art (see below on Philonides). Never- theless, Hornblower may rightly have identified an aversion of Thucydides to ominous names when he suggests that he was “reacting against Herodotus” and popular fifth-century prac- tice by avoiding the mention of “lucky names.	cache/grbs-211.pdf	txt/grbs-211.txt