Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old AgeP. F. Collier, 1909 - 438 pages |
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... given him ) and emi- nent for his famous friendship . Please forget me for a while ; imagine Laelius to be speaking . Gaius Fannius and Quintus Mucius come to call on their father - in - law after the death of Africanus . They start the ...
... given him ) and emi- nent for his famous friendship . Please forget me for a while ; imagine Laelius to be speaking . Gaius Fannius and Quintus Mucius come to call on their father - in - law after the death of Africanus . They start the ...
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... given me ( an appellation to which I do not recognise my title , and to which I make no claim ) , you doubtless act from feelings of affection ; but I must say that you seem to me to do less than justice to Cato . If any one was ever ...
... given me ( an appellation to which I do not recognise my title , and to which I make no claim ) , you doubtless act from feelings of affection ; but I must say that you seem to me to do less than justice to Cato . If any one was ever ...
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... given to man by the immortal gods . There are people who give the palm to riches or to good health , or to power and office , many even to sensual pleasures . This last is the ideal of brute beasts ; and of the others we may say that ...
... given to man by the immortal gods . There are people who give the palm to riches or to good health , or to power and office , many even to sensual pleasures . This last is the ideal of brute beasts ; and of the others we may say that ...
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... given us nothing better or more delightful . 66 But let us examine the two doctrines . What is the value of this freedom from care " ? It is very tempting at first sight , but in practice it has in many cases to be put on one side . For ...
... given us nothing better or more delightful . 66 But let us examine the two doctrines . What is the value of this freedom from care " ? It is very tempting at first sight , but in practice it has in many cases to be put on one side . For ...
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... given us friendship as the handmaid of virtue , not as a partner in guilt : to the end that virtue , being powerless when isolated to reach the highest objects , might succeed in doing so in union and partnership with another . Those ...
... given us friendship as the handmaid of virtue , not as a partner in guilt : to the end that virtue , being powerless when isolated to reach the highest objects , might succeed in doing so in union and partnership with another . Those ...
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Page 271 - I might easily do : as for herself, she said, her age and corpulency rendered all attempts of that sort impossible. However she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, I led her on : she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding my flight. The ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no great quantity.
Page 268 - Vesuvius flamed out in several places with much violence, which the darkness of the night contributed to render still more visible and dreadful. But my uncle in order to soothe the...
Page 271 - Being got at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a most dangerous and dreadful scene. The chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated backwards and forwards, though upon the most level ground, that we could not keep them steady, even by supporting them with large ftones.
Page 266 - I am well assured will be rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune, which, as it involved at the same time a most beautiful country in ruins, and destroyed so many populous cities, seems to promise him an everlasting remembrance ; notwithstanding he has himself composed many and lasting works ; yet I am persuaded the mentioning of him in your immortal writings will greatly contribute to eternize his name.
Page 271 - Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid ; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open...
Page 384 - I am unacquainted not only with the nature of their crimes, or the measure of their punishment, but how far it is proper to enter into an examination concerning them. Whether therefore any difference is usually made with respect to the ages of the guilty, or no distinction is to be observed between the young and the adult; whether...
Page 218 - ... this was his constant method, whatever book he read, for it was a maxim of his, ' that no book was so bad, but something might be learned from it.
Page 272 - Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but, the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world...
Page 270 - The letter which, in compliance with your request, I wrote to you concerning the death of my uncle, has raised, it seems, your curiosity to know what terrors and dangers attended me while I continued at Misenum ; for there, I think, the account in my former broke off. 'Though my shock'd soul recoils, my tongue shall tell.
Page 385 - God ; binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery ; never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up ; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal.