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... for us in a perfect phrase a passing smile or sigh of the writer ; which have caught for us the ' flying blossom ' of the forum or the triclinium ; and which teem with interesting traits in the social life of the ancient Romans .
... for us in a perfect phrase a passing smile or sigh of the writer ; which have caught for us the ' flying blossom ' of the forum or the triclinium ; and which teem with interesting traits in the social life of the ancient Romans .
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... to be published ) reflect every passing light or shade which falls across the disc of the writer's mind , as so many chapters of a history which registers and stereotypes at each page the political convictions of a states- man .
... to be published ) reflect every passing light or shade which falls across the disc of the writer's mind , as so many chapters of a history which registers and stereotypes at each page the political convictions of a states- man .
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I may fitly add here , as connected with this point of view , the same brilliant writer's estimate of the German detractors of Cicero , such as Drumann and Mommsen- Drumann surtout ne lui passe rien . Il a fouillé ses œuvres et sa vie ...
I may fitly add here , as connected with this point of view , the same brilliant writer's estimate of the German detractors of Cicero , such as Drumann and Mommsen- Drumann surtout ne lui passe rien . Il a fouillé ses œuvres et sa vie ...
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Bücheler puts for- ward the strange theory that Asconius , writing under Nero , cannot have known the passage , Att . i . 2 , 1 : hoc tempore Catilinam competitorem nostrum defendere cogitamus . Hence he argues that the collection of ...
Bücheler puts for- ward the strange theory that Asconius , writing under Nero , cannot have known the passage , Att . i . 2 , 1 : hoc tempore Catilinam competitorem nostrum defendere cogitamus . Hence he argues that the collection of ...
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The same writer tells us that Cicero did incriminate Caesar after his death . Knowing , therefore , that Cicero has de- liberately suppressed his real opinion on this important ques- tion , and that Sallust ( though not the mere special ...
The same writer tells us that Cicero did incriminate Caesar after his death . Knowing , therefore , that Cicero has de- liberately suppressed his real opinion on this important ques- tion , and that Sallust ( though not the mere special ...
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