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... expressions , their gravitas ( see note 1 at end ) continentia , and animi magnitudo ( Tusc . i , 1 , 2 ) . The beau ideal of a genuine Roman of the old stock is summed up in the old - world formula vir fortis atque strenuus ( Cato ap ...
... expressions , their gravitas ( see note 1 at end ) continentia , and animi magnitudo ( Tusc . i , 1 , 2 ) . The beau ideal of a genuine Roman of the old stock is summed up in the old - world formula vir fortis atque strenuus ( Cato ap ...
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... expressions already in use in favour of foreign ones , as in the case of elephas for bos Luca , and the chestnut ( nux mollusca or calva ) , etc. In cases where the origin and the derivation of a * More probably from amoliri , as an ...
... expressions already in use in favour of foreign ones , as in the case of elephas for bos Luca , and the chestnut ( nux mollusca or calva ) , etc. In cases where the origin and the derivation of a * More probably from amoliri , as an ...
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... expressions for art . Can we therefore be surprised at Cicero thus expressing himself ( De Nat . Deor . i , 4 , 8 ) : " Complures enim Graecis in- stitutionibus eruditi ea , quae didicerant , cum civi- bus suis communicare non poterant ...
... expressions for art . Can we therefore be surprised at Cicero thus expressing himself ( De Nat . Deor . i , 4 , 8 ) : " Complures enim Graecis in- stitutionibus eruditi ea , quae didicerant , cum civi- bus suis communicare non poterant ...
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... expressions for slaves : without slaves his life was impossible : he required their services at every turn and for every purpose : thus servus is to the Roman a slave looked at as a social inferior : famulus , as one of the familia or ...
... expressions for slaves : without slaves his life was impossible : he required their services at every turn and for every purpose : thus servus is to the Roman a slave looked at as a social inferior : famulus , as one of the familia or ...
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... expressions of the Romans a faithful mirror of their popular beliefs and predilections . It is only natural that when the speaker casts about for a fit com- parison , he should seize on the subject of his predilec- tion : † and mankind ...
... expressions of the Romans a faithful mirror of their popular beliefs and predilections . It is only natural that when the speaker casts about for a fit com- parison , he should seize on the subject of his predilec- tion : † and mankind ...
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Page 133 - Virgilio Varioque ? Ego cur acquirere pauca Si possum invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni Sermonem patrium ditaverit et nova rerum Nomina protulerit ? Licuit semperque licebit Signatum praesente nota producere nomen.
Page 107 - ... at qui legitimum cupiet fecisse poema, cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti ; 110 audebit, quaecumque parum splendoris habebunt et sine pondere erunt et honore indigna ferentur, verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant et versentur adhuc intra penetralia Vestae...
Page 188 - Converti enim ex Atticis duorum eloquentissimorum nobilissimas orationes inter seque contrarias, Aeschinis et 2 Demosthenis ; nee converti ut interpres, sed ut orator, sententiis isdem et earum formis tamquam figuris, verbis ad nostram consuetudinem aptis.
Page 101 - Multi ex alieno saeculo petunt verba, duodecim tabulas loquuntur. Gracchus illis et Crassus et Curio nimis culti et recentes sunt, ad Appium usque et Coruncanium redeunt.
Page 5 - Equidem soleo etiam, quod uno Graeci, si aliter non possum, idem pluribus verbis exponere.
Page 114 - In freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus umbrae Lustrabunt convexa, polus dum sidera pascet, Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, Quae me cumque vocant terrae.
Page 87 - Nec me animi fallit Graiorum obscura reperta difficile inlustrare Latinis versibus esse, multa novis verbis praesertim cum sit agendum propter egestatem linguae et rerum novitatem...
Page 4 - Latinis etiam litteris con8 tineri; eoque me minus instituti mei paenitet quod facile sentio quam multorum non modo discendi sed etiam scribendi studia commoverim. Complures enim Graecis institutionibus eruditi ea quae didicerant cum civibus suis communicare non poterant, quod ilia quae a Graecis accepissent Latine dici posse diffiderent: quo in genere tantum profecisse videmur ut a Graecis ne verborum quidem copia vincere9 mur.
Page 69 - Scio solere plerisque hominibus rebus secundis atque prolixis atque prosperis animum excellere atque superbiam atque ferociam augescere atque crescere.
Page 14 - Nam scutum, gladium, galeam in onere nostri milites non plus numerant, quam humeros, lacertos, manus. Arma enim membra militis esse dicunt.