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Page xvii
... hands , and stained with every private and public vice . The first period is one of disenchantment , the second of desperate strife . The disenchantment indeed begins at once . The volume opens with a note , scarcely more than a line in ...
... hands , and stained with every private and public vice . The first period is one of disenchantment , the second of desperate strife . The disenchantment indeed begins at once . The volume opens with a note , scarcely more than a line in ...
Page xix
... hands on much which Octavian would claim , on the ground that it was public money . " In a letter of the 22nd Cicero describes a meeting with him at the villa of his stepfather 1 Pp . 7-8 , 17 , 48 , 64 , 75 . + P. 77 . 2 P. 45 . 5 P ...
... hands on much which Octavian would claim , on the ground that it was public money . " In a letter of the 22nd Cicero describes a meeting with him at the villa of his stepfather 1 Pp . 7-8 , 17 , 48 , 64 , 75 . + P. 77 . 2 P. 45 . 5 P ...
Page xxi
... hands . Another cause of anxiety which Cicero had in this first half of the year was the uncertainty of the line likely to be taken by Pansa and Hirtius , who were consuls - designate and would come into office on the 1st of January ...
... hands . Another cause of anxiety which Cicero had in this first half of the year was the uncertainty of the line likely to be taken by Pansa and Hirtius , who were consuls - designate and would come into office on the 1st of January ...
Page xxii
... hand , as long as Antony was consul things would most likely remain as they were , and he would be personally safer out of the country , and would be doing his duty in visiting his son . But he was a wretched sailor , the long voyage ...
... hand , as long as Antony was consul things would most likely remain as they were , and he would be personally safer out of the country , and would be doing his duty in visiting his son . But he was a wretched sailor , the long voyage ...
Page xxvii
... hands of Pollio , Gallia Narbonensis and Hispania Citerior were held by Lepidus , the rest of Gallia Trans- alpina by Plancus . It was uncertain which side these three men would take , and Cicero was in constant correspondence with them ...
... hands of Pollio , Gallia Narbonensis and Hispania Citerior were held by Lepidus , the rest of Gallia Trans- alpina by Plancus . It was uncertain which side these three men would take , and Cicero was in constant correspondence with them ...
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