Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... allowed too much credit for wisdom to Cicero , whom he had himself so easily deceived ; but he did him justice when he said that Cicero was a lover of his country . I have now finished a work which has employed me PREFACE . V.
... allowed too much credit for wisdom to Cicero , whom he had himself so easily deceived ; but he did him justice when he said that Cicero was a lover of his country . I have now finished a work which has employed me PREFACE . V.
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... allowed to celebrate their festivals - Caesar's absurd sumptuary law - Limitation of the term of office of provincial governors - The confusion in the Roman calendar - Caesar , who had long been Pontifex Maximus , undertakes the ...
... allowed to celebrate their festivals - Caesar's absurd sumptuary law - Limitation of the term of office of provincial governors - The confusion in the Roman calendar - Caesar , who had long been Pontifex Maximus , undertakes the ...
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... allowed of communicating with him , nor could the tribunes maintain their constitutional right of interposing the veto , a privilege which even Sulla had not taken from them ( vol . ii . p . 400 ) . On the seventh day from the 1st of ...
... allowed of communicating with him , nor could the tribunes maintain their constitutional right of interposing the veto , a privilege which even Sulla had not taken from them ( vol . ii . p . 400 ) . On the seventh day from the 1st of ...
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... allowed to approach Pompeius , and then the disputes may be settled by a conference . This is all that Caesar states . Cicero ( Ad Fam . xvi . 12. 3 ) adds that if his terms were accepted , Caesar proposed to give up Transalpine Gallia ...
... allowed to approach Pompeius , and then the disputes may be settled by a conference . This is all that Caesar states . Cicero ( Ad Fam . xvi . 12. 3 ) adds that if his terms were accepted , Caesar proposed to give up Transalpine Gallia ...
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... allowed to escape and that the war was unnecessarily prolonged they addressed the centurions and tribunes urging them to tell Caesar not to think of their labour or danger : they were ready to cross the river where the cavalry had ...
... allowed to escape and that the war was unnecessarily prolonged they addressed the centurions and tribunes urging them to tell Caesar not to think of their labour or danger : they were ready to cross the river where the cavalry had ...
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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?