The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4G. Bell, 1890 |
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Page 88
... history of the whole world I have never known anything like this . For , when we were weighed down with slavery , when the evil was daily increasing , when we had no defence , while we were in dread of the per- nicious and fatal return ...
... history of the whole world I have never known anything like this . For , when we were weighed down with slavery , when the evil was daily increasing , when we had no defence , while we were in dread of the per- nicious and fatal return ...
Page 232
... history of the republic was this order ever more firm or more courageous ; so also they all inquire dili gently concerning every individual among us ; and especially in the case of those among us who deliver our sentiments at length in ...
... history of the republic was this order ever more firm or more courageous ; so also they all inquire dili gently concerning every individual among us ; and especially in the case of those among us who deliver our sentiments at length in ...
Page 263
... history , and argument . Fable is that in which statements are expressed which are neither true nor probable , as is this- 66 ' Huge winged snakes , join'd by one common yoke . " History is an account of exploits which have been ...
... history , and argument . Fable is that in which statements are expressed which are neither true nor probable , as is this- 66 ' Huge winged snakes , join'd by one common yoke . " History is an account of exploits which have been ...
Page 389
... history , and battles , and wars with great dignity and excellence ; but nothing can be bor- rowed from him for forensic or statesmanlike purposes of oratory . And those very speeches which he gives have many obscure and hard sentences ...
... history , and battles , and wars with great dignity and excellence ; but nothing can be bor- rowed from him for forensic or statesmanlike purposes of oratory . And those very speeches which he gives have many obscure and hard sentences ...
Page 393
... history was stirred up to dare to speak in a more fluent and adorned style than their predecessors had ventured on . XIII . Isocrates lived in the age next to theirs ; who is at all times praised by us above all other orators of his ...
... history was stirred up to dare to speak in a more fluent and adorned style than their predecessors had ventured on . XIII . Isocrates lived in the age next to theirs ; who is at all times praised by us above all other orators of his ...
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