M. Tvlli Ciceronis Tusculanarum disputationum libri quinque: a revised text with introduction and commentary and a collation of numerous mss, Volume 1University Press, 1905 |
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Page ix
... writing the explanatory notes are those of J. Davies ( here 1709 referred to as Dav . ) ; J. C. Orelli , Zurich , 1829 and Oxford , 1834 ( Or . ) ; G. H. Moser , Hanover , 1836 ( Mo. ) ; G. Tischer edited by G. Sorof , 6th ed . Berlin ...
... writing the explanatory notes are those of J. Davies ( here 1709 referred to as Dav . ) ; J. C. Orelli , Zurich , 1829 and Oxford , 1834 ( Or . ) ; G. H. Moser , Hanover , 1836 ( Mo. ) ; G. Tischer edited by G. Sorof , 6th ed . Berlin ...
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... writing . His speeches arose in the main out of the circumstances of his political career . These and the writings inspired by his consular achievements are almost his only contributions to literature from the time of his entry upon ...
... writing . His speeches arose in the main out of the circumstances of his political career . These and the writings inspired by his consular achievements are almost his only contributions to literature from the time of his entry upon ...
Page xv
... written in the summer of 44 B.C. , deal with ethics and theology . And he wrote very little besides . The epistula ad Caesarem de ordinanda re publica was indeed written , though never delivered . The projected ToλTIKòs σúdλoyos , more ...
... written in the summer of 44 B.C. , deal with ethics and theology . And he wrote very little besides . The epistula ad Caesarem de ordinanda re publica was indeed written , though never delivered . The projected ToλTIKòs σúdλoyos , more ...
Page xvi
... written philosophical works . Taking these in detail : - 1. ( a ) the discessus of Brutus referred to in Tusc . Disp . i 4 , 7 took place on the 20th of July , 45 B.C. Cicero was in his Tusculan villa from the 20th to the 24th July and ...
... written philosophical works . Taking these in detail : - 1. ( a ) the discessus of Brutus referred to in Tusc . Disp . i 4 , 7 took place on the 20th of July , 45 B.C. Cicero was in his Tusculan villa from the 20th to the 24th July and ...
Page xvii
... written out in fifteen days . But this would have involved working twice as fast as he worked over the writing of the De Finibus . There would seem to be no reason for this acceleration of the rate of speed at which he worked , and , as ...
... written out in fifteen days . But this would have involved working twice as fast as he worked over the writing of the De Finibus . There would seem to be no reason for this acceleration of the rate of speed at which he worked , and , as ...
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Page 189 - Lamentantes inducunt fortissimos viros, molliunt animos nostros, ita sunt deinde dulces, ut non legantur modo, sed etiam ediscantur. Sic ad malam domesticam disciplinam vitamque umbratilem et delicatam cum accesserunt etiam poetae, nervos omnes virtutis elidunt.
Page 12 - ... haec in philosophia ratio contra omnia disserendi nullamque rem aperte iudicandi profecta a Socrate, repetita ab Arcesila, confirmata a Carneade usque ad nostram viguit aetatem; quam 5 nunc prope modum orbam esse in ipsa Graecia intellego.
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Page 9 - In quo eo magis nobis est elaborandum, quod multi iam esse libri Latini dicuntur scripti inconsiderate ab optimis illis quidem viris, sed non satis eruditis. Fieri autem potest ut recte quis sentiat et id, quod sentit, polite eloqui non possit...
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Page 61 - Cicero (Tusc. 1. 20.46): no* enim ne nunc quidem oculis cernimus ea quae uidemus. neque est enim ullus sensus in corpore sed, ut non physici solum docent uerum etiam medici qui ista aperta et patefacta uiderunt, uiae quasi quaedam sunt ad oculos ad auris ad naris a sede animi perforatae. itaque saepe...
Page 158 - Greek, as so many words connected with shipping were (eg gubernare, aplustre, nausea), cf. Momms. RHI p. 206 n. The word is the more altered because taken by ear by uneducated men from uneducated men, not taken from books. The change from tl to cl is slight, cf. periculum (Giles, Manual § 390) ; somewhat similarly clever, originally deliver. But Reid on Ac. ii 34, 108 thinks exanclare a genuine Lat. word. For the metaphor cf. 35, 86 n. portum : cf. 44, 107 ' portum corporis ' ; Cato M. 19, 71 'ut,...