 In 1999 , Richard Forsyth , David Holmes , and Emily Tse used linguistic techniques to test the veracity of the document . The paper differentiated between two types of Latin : Cicero 's writing and " Ciceronianism " , which is a style of New Latin popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that sought to emulate the style of Cicero . Forsyth , Holmes , and Tse argued that , if the Pseudo @-@ Ciceronian Consolatio were devoid of " Ciceronianism " , that is to say New Latin , it could be accepted as a genuine work of Cicero . Forsyth , Holmes , and Tse collected six Classical Latin authors ( Cicero , Julius Caesar , Cornelius Nepos , Gaius Sallustius Crispus , Lucius Annaeus Seneca , and Publius Cornelius Tacitus ) , and five New Latin authors ( Sigonio , Piero Vettori , Marc @-@ Antoine Muret , Bernadino di Loredan , and Riccoboni ) and compared them using stylometric methods . The three concluded that the text of the Pseudo @-@ Ciceronian Consolatio is " extremely uncharacteristic of Cicero , and indeed that the text is much more likely to have been written during the Renaissance than in classical times . " Furthermore , the study also provided evidence that the work matched more closely with the style of Sigonio , rather than any of the other New Latin writers , suggesting that he created the document . 
