The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order, Volume 1Hodges, Figgis & Company, 1904 |
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... friend- ship for Clodius , is doing his best to shelve the bill which he is himself obliged to bring forward by order of the Senate . Messalla , the other consul , is in favour of strong measures . The partisans of the good cause ...
... friend- ship for Clodius , is doing his best to shelve the bill which he is himself obliged to bring forward by order of the Senate . Messalla , the other consul , is in favour of strong measures . The partisans of the good cause ...
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... friend , with whom he stands or falls . But did Cicero sincerely believe Pompeius to be the champion of the Republic ? This is the nutshell in which the whole question of this part of Cicero's policy lies . If he did believe it , it was ...
... friend , with whom he stands or falls . But did Cicero sincerely believe Pompeius to be the champion of the Republic ? This is the nutshell in which the whole question of this part of Cicero's policy lies . If he did believe it , it was ...
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... friends who resolved to present to the world his confidential utterances , unspoiled by editorial garbling , have not only earned our gratitude by the gift of a unique historical monument , but have judged most nobly and most truly what ...
... friends who resolved to present to the world his confidential utterances , unspoiled by editorial garbling , have not only earned our gratitude by the gift of a unique historical monument , but have judged most nobly and most truly what ...
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... friend . The calm retrospective judgment of Caesar Augustus , recorded for us by Plutarch ( Cic . 49 ) , sums up not unfairly the story of Cicero's life : - " It happened many years after , that Caesar once found one of his grandsons ...
... friend . The calm retrospective judgment of Caesar Augustus , recorded for us by Plutarch ( Cic . 49 ) , sums up not unfairly the story of Cicero's life : - " It happened many years after , that Caesar once found one of his grandsons ...
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... friends . Plutarch ( Cic . 8 ) tells us that early in life he was bequeathed a sum of about £ 3000 ; but his receipts under this head are probably much exaggerated . † For instance , we are asked to believe that in 695 ( 59 ) the Stoic ...
... friends . Plutarch ( Cic . 8 ) tells us that early in life he was bequeathed a sum of about £ 3000 ; but his receipts under this head are probably much exaggerated . † For instance , we are asked to believe that in 695 ( 59 ) the Stoic ...
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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...