The Lexicon · Genealogy · Antiquity
CICERO
106–43 BCE
De Officiis (The Provisional Collective as Office)
Cicero asked what one owes by virtue of one's office. CoCA's Provisional Collective (§3.2.1) is held together by the Ciceronian fiction that the role obliges the person. The Founding Strategist (§3.2.2) and the Architectural Validator (§3.2.3) are not names; they are offices. The duties precede the occupants. When the occupants depart, the office persists, vacant and lit, awaiting the next arrival.