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Overrated:
- Marcus Aurelius
- "Saint" Augustine of Hippo (are the haters Eastern Orthodox or atheist?)
- Cleopatra

Underrated
- Justinian I (who dislikes that guy?)
- Cicero

in reply to Daniel Filan

Cicero adapted the arguments of the chief schools of Hellenistic philosophy in Latin and created a large amount of Latin philosophical vocabulary via lexical innovation (e.g. neologisms such as evidentia, generator, humanitas, infinitio, qualitas, quantitas), almost 150 of which were the result of translating Greek philosophical terms.


In this house we respect lexical innovators (except for my irrational (?) dislike of the Lightcone Hyphen).