Tusculan Disputations

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W. Heinemann, 1927 - 577 pages

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Page 182 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 78 - ... igneum. his enim in naturis nihil inest, quod vim memoriae, mentis, cogitationis habeat, quod et praeterita teneat et futura provideat et complecti possit praesentia. quae sola divina sunt, nee invenietur umquam, unde ad hominem venire possint nisi a deo.
Page 156 - Atque, ut, in eodem simili verser, ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest : sic sine doctrina animus ; ita est utraque res sine altera dehilis. Cultura autem animi philosophia est...
Page 182 - Labor quaiitus agminis, ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria, ferre si quid ad usum velint, ferre vallum ; nam scutum, gladium, galeam in onere nostri milites non plus numerant quam humeros, lacertos, manus ; arma enim membra militis esse dicunt ; quae quidem ita geruntur apte, ut, si usus ferat, abiectis oneribus, expeditis armis ut membris pugnare possint.
Page 422 - ... quaererent, sed visendi causa venirent studioseque perspicerent, quid ageretur et quo modo, item nos quasi in mercatus quandam celebritatem ex urbe aliqua sic in hanc vitam ex alia vita et natura profectos alios...
Page 188 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 566 - ISOCRATES. George Norlin and LaRue Van Hook. 3 Vols. ST. JOHN DAMASCENE : BARLAAM AND IOASAPH. Rev. GR Woodward and Harold Mattingly.
Page 568 - OVID, FASTI. Sir JG Frazer. PLINY, NATURAL HISTORY. WHS Jones and LF Newman. ST. AUGUSTINE, MINOR WORKS.
Page 432 - Thus, for" example, he to whom the geometrical proposition, that the angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles...
Page 76 - Animorum nulla in terris origo inveniri potest; nihil enim est in animis mixtum atque concretum, aut quod ex terra natum atque fictum esse videatur, nihil ne aut umidum' quidem aut flabile aut igneum.

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