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3 , 3 ) , Quintilian again refers to the same speech in these words : Nec fortibus modo sed etiam fulgentibus armis proeliatur in causa Cicero Cornelii ; qui non consecutus esset docendo iudicem tantum et utiliter demum ac Latine ...
3 , 3 ) , Quintilian again refers to the same speech in these words : Nec fortibus modo sed etiam fulgentibus armis proeliatur in causa Cicero Cornelii ; qui non consecutus esset docendo iudicem tantum et utiliter demum ac Latine ...
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... as if the optima causa was not to him dearer than life , as dear almost as fame , and as if any man of Cicero's ability would or could restrain himself from giving all his intellectual resources to the aid of a party of which he was ...
... as if the optima causa was not to him dearer than life , as dear almost as fame , and as if any man of Cicero's ability would or could restrain himself from giving all his intellectual resources to the aid of a party of which he was ...
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But he always bitterly reproaches himself for any temporary defections from the causa optima , and his letters are never so gloomy as dur- ing his rapprochement towards Caesar . During the portion of Cicero's life coincident with Parts ...
But he always bitterly reproaches himself for any temporary defections from the causa optima , and his letters are never so gloomy as dur- ing his rapprochement towards Caesar . During the portion of Cicero's life coincident with Parts ...
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I cannot doubt that , had Cicero chosen , the Triumvirate might have been a Quattuorvirate ; † but he is faithful to his causa optima , the defection of Pompeius from which he regrets in expressive phrase ( Att . ii . 21 , 3 , 4 ) .
I cannot doubt that , had Cicero chosen , the Triumvirate might have been a Quattuorvirate ; † but he is faithful to his causa optima , the defection of Pompeius from which he regrets in expressive phrase ( Att . ii . 21 , 3 , 4 ) .
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But Cicero's contempt for the man himself vanishes when he regards him as the representative of the optima causa , the champion of the Senate and the ancient constitution . He then thinks only of the dignity of Pompeius's position ...
But Cicero's contempt for the man himself vanishes when he regards him as the representative of the optima causa , the champion of the Senate and the ancient constitution . He then thinks only of the dignity of Pompeius's position ...
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| Title | The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order, Volume 1 Dublin University Press series The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell |
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Editors | Louis Claude Purser, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell |
| Contributor | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hodges, Figgis ; Longmans, Green, 1885 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Jun 2007 |
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