Select epistles of Cicero and Pliny, with notes by J. EdwardsJ. W. Parker, 1836 - 250 pages |
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... to recommend them to the best attention of the student . The same principle , which directed the selection of the first , operated in that of these last Letters ; and in the accounts of Pliny the Naturalist A 2 ADVERTISEMENT. ...
... to recommend them to the best attention of the student . The same principle , which directed the selection of the first , operated in that of these last Letters ; and in the accounts of Pliny the Naturalist A 2 ADVERTISEMENT. ...
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Joseph Edwards. Letters ; and in the accounts of Pliny the Naturalist , of the writer's country - seats , and in most other instances , there will be found much to instruct and improve the mind , couched in the ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero Joseph Edwards. Letters ; and in the accounts of Pliny the Naturalist , of the writer's country - seats , and in most other instances , there will be found much to instruct and improve the mind , couched in the ...
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... account of whom , see Lempriere ) was married to Pomponia the sister of Atti- cus , and had , about this time , some disagreement with her . 4 Quintus had a farm near Arpinum , called Arcanum . B diis erat , et secum habebat hominem ...
... account of whom , see Lempriere ) was married to Pomponia the sister of Atti- cus , and had , about this time , some disagreement with her . 4 Quintus had a farm near Arpinum , called Arcanum . B diis erat , et secum habebat hominem ...
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... account Adams gives of the Roman year . The following couplet should be recollected : Sex , Maius , Nonas , October , Julius , et Mars ; Quatuor , at , reliqui ; dant Idus qui . libet octo . 7 Ornaments suited to a gymnasium , which ...
... account Adams gives of the Roman year . The following couplet should be recollected : Sex , Maius , Nonas , October , Julius , et Mars ; Quatuor , at , reliqui ; dant Idus qui . libet octo . 7 Ornaments suited to a gymnasium , which ...
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... account of the manner of election , the duties & c . of consuls , see Adams . 2 The wife of Cicero : ow- ing to some disagreement , he divorced her subsequently . 3 The great conspirator . He intended , as well as Cicero , to canvass ...
... account of the manner of election , the duties & c . of consuls , see Adams . 2 The wife of Cicero : ow- ing to some disagreement , he divorced her subsequently . 3 The great conspirator . He intended , as well as Cicero , to canvass ...
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Page 243 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Page 158 - Coepi egomet mecum sic cogitare: 'Hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut occisus est, quorum vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera proiecta iacent? Visne tu te, Servi, cohibere et meminisse hominem te esse natum?
Page 226 - Miseni quod procurrit abstulerat. tum mater orare, hortari, iubere quoquo modo fugerem : posse enim iuvenem, se et annis et corpore gravem bene morituram, si mihi causa mortis non fuisset. ego contra, salvum me nisi una non futurum : dein manum eius amplexus addere gradum cogo.
Page 230 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 223 - Tum se quieti dedit et quievit verissimo quidem somno. Nam meatus animae, qui illi propter amplitudinem corporis gravior et sonantior erat, ab iis, qui limini obversabantur, audiebatur.
Page 244 - Visa est enim mihi res digna consultatione, maxime propter periclitantium numerum. Multi enim omnis aetatis, omnis ordinis, utriusque sexus etiam, vocantur in periculum, et vocabuntur. Neque civitates tantum, sed vicos etiam atque agros superstitionis istius contagio pervagata est : quae videtur sisti et corrigi posse. Certe satis constat, prope iam desolata templa coepisse celebrari, et sacra solemnia diu intermissa repeti, pastumque venire victimarum, cuius adhuc rarissimus emptor inveniebatur.
Page 221 - ... equidem beatos puto quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda, beatissimos vero quibus utrumque.
Page 67 - Te vero {лговеcгм scribendi egregiam habere video. Q.uos tu situs, quas naturas rerum et locorum, quos mores, quas gentes, quas pugnas, quem vero ipsum imperatorem habes ! Ego te libenter, ut rogas, quibus rebus vis, adiuvabo et tibi versus, quos rogas, у\айK els 'Авqvas mittam.