Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises of Friendship and Old AgeP. F. Collier, 1909 - 438 pages |
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... request that he undertook in 70 B. C. the prosecution of Verres , who as praetor had subjected the Sicilians to incredible extortion and oppression ; and his suc- cessful conduct of this case , which ended in the conviction and ...
... request that he undertook in 70 B. C. the prosecution of Verres , who as praetor had subjected the Sicilians to incredible extortion and oppression ; and his suc- cessful conduct of this case , which ended in the conviction and ...
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... request . As to the dramatis persona . In the treatise on Old Age , which I dedicated to you , I introduced Cato as chief speaker . No one , I thought , could with greater propriety speak on old age than one who had been an old man ...
... request . As to the dramatis persona . In the treatise on Old Age , which I dedicated to you , I introduced Cato as chief speaker . No one , I thought , could with greater propriety speak on old age than one who had been an old man ...
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... request I was about to make . So you will be doing us both a great favour . 5. Laelius . I should certainly have no objection if I felt confidence in myself . For the theme is a noble one , and we are ( as Fannius has said ) at leisure ...
... request I was about to make . So you will be doing us both a great favour . 5. Laelius . I should certainly have no objection if I felt confidence in myself . For the theme is a noble one , and we are ( as Fannius has said ) at leisure ...
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... request being made of friends , to pander to a man's unholy desires or to assist him in inflicting a wrong . A ... requests they make to their friends , thereby allow that they are ready to have no scruples as to what they will do for ...
... request being made of friends , to pander to a man's unholy desires or to assist him in inflicting a wrong . A ... requests they make to their friends , thereby allow that they are ready to have no scruples as to what they will do for ...
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... request if he had made it ; for they were men of the most scrupulous piety , and the making of such a request would involve a breach of religious obligation no less than the granting it . However , it is quite true that Gaius Carbo and ...
... request if he had made it ; for they were men of the most scrupulous piety , and the making of such a request would involve a breach of religious obligation no less than the granting it . However , it is quite true that Gaius Carbo and ...
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Page 300 - But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages which the country people had abandoned to the flames; after this he retired to rest, and it is most certain he was so little discomposed as to fall into a deep sleep ; for being pretty fat and breathing hard, those who attended without actually heard him snore.
Page 300 - He had already sent his baggage on board ; for though he was not at that time...
Page 303 - 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 426 - I ordered them to be immediately punished: for I was persuaded, whatever the nature of their opinions might be, a contumacious and inflexible obstinacy certainly deserved correction. There were others also brought before me possessed with the same infatuation, but being citizens of Rome, I directed them to be carried thither.
Page 298 - 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 303 - 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 426 - 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 244 - ... 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 304 - 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 304 - The ashes now began to fall upon us though in no great quantity. I turned my head, and observed behind us a thick smoke, which came rolling after us like a torrent. I proposed, while we...