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... Roman mind and parry the assaults of Carneades , though it retained the spirit of its founders . It is noteworthy that of the earlier Stoics not one was a native of Greece proper . Zeno was the " Phoenician , " Cleanthes and Chry ...
... Roman mind and parry the assaults of Carneades , though it retained the spirit of its founders . It is noteworthy that of the earlier Stoics not one was a native of Greece proper . Zeno was the " Phoenician , " Cleanthes and Chry ...
Page xx
... Roman virtue . The Stoic view of religion , which rationalized the myths 3 and interpreted the divini- ties of polytheism as manifestations of one Supreme Being , justified Roman statesmen in the maintenance of popular beliefs and cults ...
... Roman virtue . The Stoic view of religion , which rationalized the myths 3 and interpreted the divini- ties of polytheism as manifestations of one Supreme Being , justified Roman statesmen in the maintenance of popular beliefs and cults ...
Page xxi
... Roman jurisprudence by the praetor's edicts . The Peripatetics were few . The works of their founder Aristotle were neglected and it was not till the days of the medieval schoolmen that the great- ness of Aristotle was better understood ...
... Roman jurisprudence by the praetor's edicts . The Peripatetics were few . The works of their founder Aristotle were neglected and it was not till the days of the medieval schoolmen that the great- ness of Aristotle was better understood ...
Page xxiv
... Romans were now expected to have some acquaintance . The five books , it is true , are dedicated to the austere Brutus , but in the first instance they may have been intended to meet the needs of men like Pansa , Hirtius and Dolabella ...
... Romans were now expected to have some acquaintance . The five books , it is true , are dedicated to the austere Brutus , but in the first instance they may have been intended to meet the needs of men like Pansa , Hirtius and Dolabella ...
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... Roman bar ; during his consulship and at the end of his life , as the opponent of Antony , he directed the policy of the Roman State : in Cilicia he showed himself an able administrator . When men of his gifts and his experience are ...
... Roman bar ; during his consulship and at the end of his life , as the opponent of Antony , he directed the policy of the Roman State : in Cilicia he showed himself an able administrator . When men of his gifts and his experience are ...
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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.