The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order, Volume 1Hodges, Figgis & Company, 1904 |
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... Rome safe from their Northern foes . Henceforth foreign levy ' is but a tool in the hands of malice domestic . ' In the year of the city 666 ( 88 ) , the tribune P. Sulpicius , in transferring to Marius the command and province of Sulla ...
... Rome safe from their Northern foes . Henceforth foreign levy ' is but a tool in the hands of malice domestic . ' In the year of the city 666 ( 88 ) , the tribune P. Sulpicius , in transferring to Marius the command and province of Sulla ...
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... Rome who had not appeared both as prosecutor and as defendant . Plutarch tells us that Cato the Censor was prosecuted nearly fifty times , and he was constantly engaged in the prosecution of others . In the year 689 ( 65 ) Cicero , in a ...
... Rome who had not appeared both as prosecutor and as defendant . Plutarch tells us that Cato the Censor was prosecuted nearly fifty times , and he was constantly engaged in the prosecution of others . In the year 689 ( 65 ) Cicero , in a ...
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... Rome . * * The arguments drawn from the oratio in toga candida have been urged by Asconius against Fenestella , who maintains that Cicero did defend Catiline . Bücheler ( Rhein . Mus . , 1879 , p . 352 ) puts forward the theory that ...
... Rome . * * The arguments drawn from the oratio in toga candida have been urged by Asconius against Fenestella , who maintains that Cicero did defend Catiline . Bücheler ( Rhein . Mus . , 1879 , p . 352 ) puts forward the theory that ...
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... Rome . Theodor Mommsen so far forgot the high functions of the historian in the self - imposed task of finding in Caesar the perfect man , that in introducing for the first time to his readers one who ( however we may regard his ...
... Rome . Theodor Mommsen so far forgot the high functions of the historian in the self - imposed task of finding in Caesar the perfect man , that in introducing for the first time to his readers one who ( however we may regard his ...
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... Rome . Lucan ( i . 330 ) finely says of Pompey , that he had licked the sword of Sulla , and had never forgotten the taste of blood . ( Sic et Sullanum solito tibi lambere ferrum Durat , Magne , sitis . ) An estimate of Cicero's ...
... Rome . Lucan ( i . 330 ) finely says of Pompey , that he had licked the sword of Sulla , and had never forgotten the taste of blood . ( Sic et Sullanum solito tibi lambere ferrum Durat , Magne , sitis . ) An estimate of Cicero's ...
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Page 285 - Or ruminate in the contiguous shade. Thither the household feathery people crowd, The crested cock, with all his female train, Pensive, and dripping ; while the...
Page 8 - On y voit notamment que ce prétendu homme d'État n'était qu'un égoïste et un myope, et que ce grand écrivain ne se compose que d'un feuilletoniste et d'un avocat. Voilà bien la même plume qui vient d'appeler Caton un don Quichotte et Pompée un caporal. Comme il est toujours préoccupé du présent dans ses études du passé, on dirait qu'il poursuit dans l'aristocratie romaine les hobereaux de la Prusse et qu'il salue d'avance dans César ce despote populaire dont la main ferme peut seule...
Page 26 - ... edidi ! It was then that Hortensius, feeling that no panel could fail to convict Clodius, hit on the expedient of facilitating matters, and obviating the hostility of the tribune Fufius, by giving up the consular bill, which empanelled a jury to be chosen by the praetor, and allowing Fufius to propose a bill providing that the jury should be chosen by lot out of the decuriae. This was of course the ordinary practice ; and it is clear that the consular rogation, iu providing a panel chosen by...