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Page viii
... Roman history and literature he was himself responsible . The style in which he wrote was his own and he had to find Latin equivalents for the Greek philosophical terminology . Often , especially in the second book of the Tusculans , he ...
... Roman history and literature he was himself responsible . The style in which he wrote was his own and he had to find Latin equivalents for the Greek philosophical terminology . Often , especially in the second book of the Tusculans , he ...
Page ix
... Roman literature from the reproach of having neglected philosophy . He wished to do his countrymen a service and hoped that , as the glory of free oratory 1 Ad Q. F. II . 11. 1 . 17 . ginning . Vuvaisance . muy mu INTRODUCTION passed ix ...
... Roman literature from the reproach of having neglected philosophy . He wished to do his countrymen a service and hoped that , as the glory of free oratory 1 Ad Q. F. II . 11. 1 . 17 . ginning . Vuvaisance . muy mu INTRODUCTION passed ix ...
Page x
... Roman history.1 He will not admit the superiority of the Greek language for the purposes of philosophy , and will not hear of any incapacity in Roman intellect to engage in philosophical inquiries.3 4 According to tradition , philosophy ...
... Roman history.1 He will not admit the superiority of the Greek language for the purposes of philosophy , and will not hear of any incapacity in Roman intellect to engage in philosophical inquiries.3 4 According to tradition , philosophy ...
Page xi
... Roman and a Senator , " had not the wisdom of his mother restrained him.2 Cicero set himself to make Greek philosophy accessible in a Roman form . There were , it is true , Roman writers on the subject . He tells us of Amafinius 3 and ...
... Roman and a Senator , " had not the wisdom of his mother restrained him.2 Cicero set himself to make Greek philosophy accessible in a Roman form . There were , it is true , Roman writers on the subject . He tells us of Amafinius 3 and ...
Page xiv
... Romans the old political freedom came to an end . Men's thoughts were turned inward and they sought to obtain within themselves that peace and happiness which they could not find in the external world . It became the aim of philosophy ...
... Romans the old political freedom came to an end . Men's thoughts were turned inward and they sought to obtain within themselves that peace and happiness which they could not find in the external world . It became the aim of philosophy ...
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Page 2 - Graecis et litteris et doctoribus percipi non posset, sed meum semper iudicium fuit omnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Graecos aut accepta ab illis fecisse meliora, quae quidem digna statuissent, in quibus 2 elaborarent.
Page xxviii - Words, and more words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations.
Page 26 - Platonem semper excipio — praestans et ingenio et diligentia, cum quattuor nota illa genera principiorum esset complexus, e quibus omnia orerentur, quintam quandam naturam censet esse, e qua sit mens. cogitare enim et providere et discere et docere et invenire aliquid et...
Page 188 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 194 - 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 76 - ... and the created heaven has been, and is, and will be, in all time. Such was the mind and thought of God in the creation of time. The sun and moon and five other stars, which are called the planets, were created by him in order to distinguish and preserve the numbers of time...
Page 4 - ... oratio Catonis, in qua obiecit ut probrum M. Nobiliori, quod is in provinciam poetas duxisset; duxerat autem consul ille in Aetoliam, ut scimus, Ennium.
Page 430 - ... o vitae philosophia dux, o virtutis indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine te esse potuisset?
Page 80 - ... quicquid est illud quod sentit, quod sapit, quod vivit, quod viget, caeleste et divinum ob eamque rem aeternum sit necesse est.
Page 78 - 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.