The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 44-43G. Bell and Sons, 1900 |
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... DESPATCH this letter on the 3rd of May , when on the point of embarking on a rowing boat from the Cluvian pleasure - grounds , ' after having handed over to Pilia my villa on the Lucrine lake , its servants , and bailiffs . I myself on ...
... DESPATCH this letter on the 3rd of May , when on the point of embarking on a rowing boat from the Cluvian pleasure - grounds , ' after having handed over to Pilia my villa on the Lucrine lake , its servants , and bailiffs . I myself on ...
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... despatched Cassius's letter - carrier . Good heavens ! how plainly he shewed his dread of peace ! You know , too , what a reserved fellow he is , yet he told me Antony's plans . That he was making the round of the veterans , to induce ...
... despatched Cassius's letter - carrier . Good heavens ! how plainly he shewed his dread of peace ! You know , too , what a reserved fellow he is , yet he told me Antony's plans . That he was making the round of the veterans , to induce ...
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... despatching a letter to you on the 18th of May as I was starting from the lodge at Sinuessa , I stopped at the villa at Vescia . There a letter - carrier delivered me a letter from you in which you say more than enough about Buthrotum ...
... despatching a letter to you on the 18th of May as I was starting from the lodge at Sinuessa , I stopped at the villa at Vescia . There a letter - carrier delivered me a letter from you in which you say more than enough about Buthrotum ...
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... despatching this quite ignorant . I hear rumours of certain revolutionary proceedings : but I hope they are false , that we may at length have the enjoyment of liberty and peace - two things that up to now have really never fallen to my ...
... despatching this quite ignorant . I hear rumours of certain revolutionary proceedings : but I hope they are false , that we may at length have the enjoyment of liberty and peace - two things that up to now have really never fallen to my ...
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... despatch this letter to you when on the point of starting for my Tusculan villa . Don't imagine me to be so indefatigable as to hurry back by the 5th . I can't see that there is anything now requiring my attention , especially as ...
... despatch this letter to you when on the point of starting for my Tusculan villa . Don't imagine me to be so indefatigable as to hurry back by the 5th . I can't see that there is anything now requiring my attention , especially as ...
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Accordingly Antony Antony's April army Arpinum arrived Asia assassins Astura ATTICUS AT ROME Balbus BRUT Brutus and Cassius Buthrotians Buthrotum Cæsar camp cavalry CICERO AT ROME citizens consuls consulship Cornificius CULARO danger dear Decimus Brutus decree despatch Dolabella DYRRACHIUM Edited enemy F XI F XII favour feel forces Furnius Gaius Antonius Gallia Gaul give Hirtius History honour hope Ides of March Italy IUNIUS BRUTUS JUNE Lanuvium legates legatus legions Lepidus letter letter-carrier Lucius Macedonia Marcus MUNATIUS PLANCUS Mutina never Number Octavian opinion Pansa Phil Pilia political Pompeii position prætor Pray province Puteoli quæstor Quintus QUINTUS CORNIFICIUS regard Republic revised Roman safety seems senate sent Servilius Sextus Sextus Pompeius shew speech Syria tell things thought tion Trans Translated Trebonius TUSCULUM Ventidius veterans villa vols wish word write written ΙΟ
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