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Page xxxi
... usage of dialogue writers from Plato to Cicero has sanctioned . In fact , the prooemium of the Dialogus is unmistak- ably modelled upon a similar dramatic device of Cicero . Plato , it is true , makes most extraordinary demands upon the ...
... usage of dialogue writers from Plato to Cicero has sanctioned . In fact , the prooemium of the Dialogus is unmistak- ably modelled upon a similar dramatic device of Cicero . Plato , it is true , makes most extraordinary demands upon the ...
Page xlviii
... usage given under a . b . c . d . e . are omitted in Weinkauff's collection pp . cxxxviii - clxiv ! 99 This peculiarity did not escape his later imitator , Ammianus Marcellinus . while the writer of the Dialogus is ' dulcis et xlviii ...
... usage given under a . b . c . d . e . are omitted in Weinkauff's collection pp . cxxxviii - clxiv ! 99 This peculiarity did not escape his later imitator , Ammianus Marcellinus . while the writer of the Dialogus is ' dulcis et xlviii ...
Page xlix
... been collected in the Commentary , and the index locorum s . v . Cicero will reveal at a glance the great extent of the author's Contempo- rary Usage . Individuality of Author . indebtedness.100 This PROLEGOMENA . xlix.
... been collected in the Commentary , and the index locorum s . v . Cicero will reveal at a glance the great extent of the author's Contempo- rary Usage . Individuality of Author . indebtedness.100 This PROLEGOMENA . xlix.
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... usage of his time . Hence it is that we constantly meet with clear evidence in the Dialogus of what is commonly , but very inappropriately , designated as Silver Latin , so many threads , as it were , interwoven into the Ciceronian ...
... usage of his time . Hence it is that we constantly meet with clear evidence in the Dialogus of what is commonly , but very inappropriately , designated as Silver Latin , so many threads , as it were , interwoven into the Ciceronian ...
Page liv
... usage of anastrophe of conjunctions and prep- ositions , et before negatives , et in asyndetic collocations , change and repetition of prepositions , the use of particles and the like . · The cumulative weight of this evidence in proof ...
... usage of anastrophe of conjunctions and prep- ositions , et before negatives , et in asyndetic collocations , change and repetition of prepositions , the use of particles and the like . · The cumulative weight of this evidence in proof ...
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Page 323 - Renuntiatum est nobis esse homines qui novum genus disciplinae instituerunt ad quos iuventus in ludum conveniat; eos sibi nomen imposuisse Latinos rhetoras; ibi homines adolescentulos dies totos desidere. Maiores nostri quae liberos suos discere et quos in ludos itare vellent instituerunt.
Page liii - Habet quidem oratio et historia multa communia, sed plura diversa in his ipsis, quae communia videntur. illa, narrat haec, sed aliter; huic pleraque humilia et sordida et ex medio petita, illi omnia recondita, splendida, excelsa conveniunt; hanc saepius ossa, musculi, nervi, illam tori quidam et quasi iubae decent; haec...
Page 147 - Aurea prima sata est aetas, quae vindice nullo, sponte sua, sine lege fidem rectumque colebat.
Page 127 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 224 - Duo autem genera maxime cavenda pueris puto: unum. ne'quis eos antiquitatis nimius admirator in Gracchorum Catonisque et aliorum similium lectione durescere velit; fient enim horridi atque ieiuni...
Page 194 - CAELIO et praecipue in accusando multa urbanitas, dignusque vir, cui et mens melior et vita longior contigisset. Inveni qui CALVUM praeferrent omnibus, inveni qui Ciceroni crederent eum nimia contra se calumnia verum sanguinem perdidisse ; sed est et sancta et gravis oratio et castigata et frequenter vehemens quoque.
Page 207 - Caesar consul M. Catonem sententiam rogavit. Cato rem quae consulebatur, quoniam non e republica videbatur, perfici nolebat. Eius rei ducendae gratia longa oratione utebatur eximebatque dicendo diem. Erat enim ius senatori, ut sententiam rogatus diceret ante quicquid vellet aliae rei et quoad vellet. Caesar consul viatorem vocavit eumque, cum finem non faceret, prendi loquentem et in carcerem duci iussit. Senatus consurrexit et prosequebatur Catonem in carcerem. Hac," inquit, "invidia facta Caesar...
Page 231 - C. vero CAESAR si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur. Tanta in eo vis est, id acumen, ea concitatio, ut ilium eodem animo dixisse quo bellavit appareat ; exornat tamen haec omnia mira sermonis, cuius proprie studiosus fuit, elegantia.
Page 149 - O mihi turn longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.
Page 170 - Declamabat autem Cicero non quales nunc controversias dicimus, ne tales quidem, quales ante Ciceronem dicebantur, quas thesis vocabant. Hoc enim genus materiae, quo nos exercemur, adeo novum est, ut nomen quoque eius novum sit. Controversias nos dicimus: Cicero causas vocabat. Hoc vero alterum nomen Graecum quidem, sed in Latinum ita translatum, ut pro Latino sit, scholastica, controversia multo recentius est, sicut ipsa "declamatio...