Orationes quaedam selectae, in usum Delphini, cum interpretatione et historia succincta rerum gestarum et scriptorum M.T. Ciceronis ...Towar & Hogan, 1828 - 367 pages |
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Page 242 - Est enim, iudices, haec non scripta sed nata lex, quam non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus, ad quam non docti sed facti, non instituti sed imbuti sumus.
Page 302 - ... away. Antony, on the other hand, was desirous to have him there, fancying that he would either be frightened into a compliance, which would lessen him with his own party, or, by opposing what was intended, make himself odious to the soldiery ; but as he was absent, the decree passed without any contradiction. The senate met again the next day, when Antony thought fit to absent himself, and leave the stage clear to Cicero * ; who accordingly appeared, and delivered the first of those...
Page 198 - ... both the orator and the audience : for, when Cicero had mounted the rostra, and was ready to perform this last act of his office, the tribune would not suffer...
Page 169 - Sed aliud est maledicere, aliud accusare. Accusatio crimen desiderat, rem ut definiat, hominem ut notet, argumento probet, teste confirmet. Maledictio autem nihil habet propositi, praeter contumeliam ; quae si petulantius jactatur, convicium ; si facetius, urbanitas nominatur.
Page 158 - Ego multos homines excellenti animo ac virtute fuisse et sine doctrina naturae ipsius habitu prope divino per se ipsos et moderatos et graves exstitisse fateor : etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina quam sine natura valuisse doctrinam.
Page 7 - In reckoning by sesterces, the Romans had an art which may be understood by these three rules : First : If a numeral noun agree in number, case, and gender, with sestertius, then it denotes so many sestertii — as decem sestertii.
Page 159 - Atqui sic a summis hominibus eruditissimisque accepimus, ceterarum rerum studia et doctrina et praeceptis et arte constare, poetam natura ipsa valere et mentis viribus excitari et quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari.