Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... Cicero's character best from his own letters , which are the strongest evidence that we have against him . " I mean ... Cicero is still wanted ; and when it shall be written , we shall see whether the writer has the capacity of rightly ...
... Cicero's character best from his own letters , which are the strongest evidence that we have against him . " I mean ... Cicero is still wanted ; and when it shall be written , we shall see whether the writer has the capacity of rightly ...
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... Cicero's opinions of the Pompeian party , and unjust judgment of Pompeius : his opinion of the designs of Pompeius and Caesar -Cicero's opinions of Caesar's partisans - Cicero's weakness CHAPTER II . CAESAR AT CORFINIUM . B.C. 49 . Livy ...
... Cicero's opinions of the Pompeian party , and unjust judgment of Pompeius : his opinion of the designs of Pompeius and Caesar -Cicero's opinions of Caesar's partisans - Cicero's weakness CHAPTER II . CAESAR AT CORFINIUM . B.C. 49 . Livy ...
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... Cicero to join him at Luceria , but Cicero refuses - Cicero thinks most about his own safety - Pompeius retires to Brundisium - Caesar's message to Cicero , and Cicero's answer- Cicero plays a double part , deceives Pompeius , and by ...
... Cicero to join him at Luceria , but Cicero refuses - Cicero thinks most about his own safety - Pompeius retires to Brundisium - Caesar's message to Cicero , and Cicero's answer- Cicero plays a double part , deceives Pompeius , and by ...
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... Cicero , who was thinking of leaving Italy - The arrival of Caesar at Rome - Caesar as Dictator presides at the consular elections , and is elected consul for B. C. 48 with P. Servilius Isauricus - Caesar settles the disputes between ...
... Cicero , who was thinking of leaving Italy - The arrival of Caesar at Rome - Caesar as Dictator presides at the consular elections , and is elected consul for B. C. 48 with P. Servilius Isauricus - Caesar settles the disputes between ...
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... Cicero returns to Italy- Cicero's account of the behaviour of M. Antonius - The extraordinary honours conferred on Caesar by the Romans - He assumes the dictatorship in Egypt in September , B.C. 48 — Caesar resumes his narrative of the ...
... Cicero returns to Italy- Cicero's account of the behaviour of M. Antonius - The extraordinary honours conferred on Caesar by the Romans - He assumes the dictatorship in Egypt in September , B.C. 48 — Caesar resumes his narrative of the ...
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Page iv - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?