Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... fear , or pretended fear , of Caesar - Cicero begins a letter of advice to Caesar about public affairs ; Atticus approves of the letter , but Cicero does not send it - Cicero's panegyric on Cato - Caesar's reply , named " Anti- catones ...
... fear , or pretended fear , of Caesar - Cicero begins a letter of advice to Caesar about public affairs ; Atticus approves of the letter , but Cicero does not send it - Cicero's panegyric on Cato - Caesar's reply , named " Anti- catones ...
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... fears : she entreats Caesar to put off the meeting of the Senate - Caesar not in good health at this time - Decimus Brutus persuades Caesar to go to the meeting of the Senate - The story of the augur Spurinna , and of the Greek Arte ...
... fears : she entreats Caesar to put off the meeting of the Senate - Caesar not in good health at this time - Decimus Brutus persuades Caesar to go to the meeting of the Senate - The story of the augur Spurinna , and of the Greek Arte ...
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... fear - Caesar a man of letters , an excellent orator , and versed in the writings of the Greeks - His varied capacity - His great diligence and love of men of letters - His Commen- taries the best manual for a general - Montaigne's ...
... fear - Caesar a man of letters , an excellent orator , and versed in the writings of the Greeks - His varied capacity - His great diligence and love of men of letters - His Commen- taries the best manual for a general - Montaigne's ...
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... fear , for Pompeius had troops outside of the city ( Dion , xli . 2 ) , voted for Scipio's motion that Caesar should disband his army before a certain day or be declared an enemy to the State . The tribunes M. Antonius and Q. Cassius ...
... fear , for Pompeius had troops outside of the city ( Dion , xli . 2 ) , voted for Scipio's motion that Caesar should disband his army before a certain day or be declared an enemy to the State . The tribunes M. Antonius and Q. Cassius ...
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... fear also that he might be brought to trial , probably on the charge which he had escaped in B.c. 52 ( vol . iv . p . 366 ) with the help of his son - in - law : he was a vain , ostentatious man , who attached himself to the party which ...
... fear also that he might be brought to trial , probably on the charge which he had escaped in B.c. 52 ( vol . iv . p . 366 ) with the help of his son - in - law : he was a vain , ostentatious man , who attached himself to the party which ...
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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?