Select epistles of Cicero and Pliny, with notes by J. EdwardsJ. W. Parker, 1836 - 250 pages |
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... great variety of subjects ; and they are written in a style of the most elegant Latinity . The following Selection has been made with reference to both these points . The elucidation of historical events , the illustration of public ...
... great variety of subjects ; and they are written in a style of the most elegant Latinity . The following Selection has been made with reference to both these points . The elucidation of historical events , the illustration of public ...
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... great service , as Cicero himself allowed , in improving his style , and stripping it of florid redundance . After an absence of two years , he returned to Rome , improved in health and voice , and resumed his duties in the forum ; and ...
... great service , as Cicero himself allowed , in improving his style , and stripping it of florid redundance . After an absence of two years , he returned to Rome , improved in health and voice , and resumed his duties in the forum ; and ...
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... great orator ; for , five years after the expiration of his consulship , he was banished Italy . During the time of his banishment , he did not entirely put in practice those precepts of patience and philosophy he had learnt and ...
... great orator ; for , five years after the expiration of his consulship , he was banished Italy . During the time of his banishment , he did not entirely put in practice those precepts of patience and philosophy he had learnt and ...
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... great part of his Epistles are addressed to Atticus , a Roman Knight , his dearest and most esteemed friend . It is from these letters , prin- cipally , that after - ages have drawn a character of their writer ; which has been ...
... great part of his Epistles are addressed to Atticus , a Roman Knight , his dearest and most esteemed friend . It is from these letters , prin- cipally , that after - ages have drawn a character of their writer ; which has been ...
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... great conspirator . He intended , as well as Cicero , to canvass for the consulship the following year . Cogitabamus , in this sentence , must be con- strued as a present- " we are purposing . " 4 Judices answer somewhat to our Special ...
... great conspirator . He intended , as well as Cicero , to canvass for the consulship the following year . Cogitabamus , in this sentence , must be con- strued as a present- " we are purposing . " 4 Judices answer somewhat to our Special ...
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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.