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Quid tertiā persōnā dē sē scrībere connotat?

What connotation does writing about oneself in the third person carry in Latin? In English, it usually connotes that the author is astoundingly arrogant, perhaps to the point of insanity. But Caesar famously wrote his entire Commentarii de Bello…
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