Latron is the only thinker created by ancient Rome. While Lucretius and Seneca owe everything to Greece, Latron challenged Greek thought. He would say: “Logical thinking is the most emotional thing a person has.” Or again: “I have no knowledge of any medicine for wisdom.” Finally, his saying is: “No one is good by their own will.” He composed speeches and contradictions of which none have been preserved.

Marcus Porcius Latron was born in Corduba in 696 AUC (-57 of our era). As a child, he lost his memory for six days. A kick from a heifer nearly killed him, so that when he turned forty, he began to become curious. He demanded that the Senate pass a law requiring women to cover their faces. More than anything, he enjoyed hunting with a spear.

In his old age, he claimed that in his life he had loved sometimes four things, sometimes three: the voice, intercourse, and the forest. Sometimes he would add books, but he said that he had enjoyed few of them. Exiled by Augustus to Spain, he committed suicide in -4.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]