The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order, Volume 1Hodges, Figgis ; Longmans, Green, 1885 - Authors, Latin |
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... Quintus on the tactics of a candidate for consulship ( Ep . xii . ) ; nothing could be more worldly and politic than its precepts ; but what an advantage in dignity it has over some of the epistles of Horace . The one teaches to flatter ...
... Quintus on the tactics of a candidate for consulship ( Ep . xii . ) ; nothing could be more worldly and politic than its precepts ; but what an advantage in dignity it has over some of the epistles of Horace . The one teaches to flatter ...
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... Quintus , Arcanum and Laterium ; and a house in Rome on the Carinae , which he seems to have made over to his brother Quintus , * when he himself , after his consulate , bought for nearly £ 30,000 the magnificent house of M. Crassus on ...
... Quintus , Arcanum and Laterium ; and a house in Rome on the Carinae , which he seems to have made over to his brother Quintus , * when he himself , after his consulate , bought for nearly £ 30,000 the magnificent house of M. Crassus on ...
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... Quintus lays down his bloody axe and well- worn scourge ; young Marcus casts the chaplet from his wine - flushed brow ; to wield the sword with all the energy of Camillus or Scipio . Plutarch remarks that by a sin- gular coincidence ...
... Quintus lays down his bloody axe and well- worn scourge ; young Marcus casts the chaplet from his wine - flushed brow ; to wield the sword with all the energy of Camillus or Scipio . Plutarch remarks that by a sin- gular coincidence ...
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... Quintus , directed to various friends , fell accidentally into the hands of Marcus . Some of them he forwarded to their destination . But on learning from these persons that the letters forwarded by him were full of atro- cious ...
... Quintus , directed to various friends , fell accidentally into the hands of Marcus . Some of them he forwarded to their destination . But on learning from these persons that the letters forwarded by him were full of atro- cious ...
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... Quintus is very remarkable . One is familiar with the domestic bully , who in the world is an obsequious syco- phant . But in Quintus we have the exactly opposite type . With his friends he is Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in ...
... Quintus is very remarkable . One is familiar with the domestic bully , who in the world is an obsequious syco- phant . But in Quintus we have the exactly opposite type . With his friends he is Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in ...
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