The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth ...C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1830 - Rome |
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... cause , he had the piety ( in this , with- out question , an emulator of the devout Camillus ) to erect , in memory of his exploit , a temple to Concord , as if by the soft arts of persuasion , and by mutual con- cessions , the civil ...
... cause , he had the piety ( in this , with- out question , an emulator of the devout Camillus ) to erect , in memory of his exploit , a temple to Concord , as if by the soft arts of persuasion , and by mutual con- cessions , the civil ...
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... cause , it is no great wonder if , at this juncture , Opimius was acquitted . The comitia , likewise , at the Liv . Epit . motion of Octavius , one of the tribunes , abrogated the Cic . in law of Caius Gracchus in relation to the ...
... cause , it is no great wonder if , at this juncture , Opimius was acquitted . The comitia , likewise , at the Liv . Epit . motion of Octavius , one of the tribunes , abrogated the Cic . in law of Caius Gracchus in relation to the ...
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... cause you have often in public assemblies deplored the death of Tiberius Gracchus ; were an accomplice in the murder of Publius Scipio ; in your tribuneship proposed that law [ the law empowering the people to re - elect as often as ...
... cause you have often in public assemblies deplored the death of Tiberius Gracchus ; were an accomplice in the murder of Publius Scipio ; in your tribuneship proposed that law [ the law empowering the people to re - elect as often as ...
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... cause to be tried anew ; and by a special commission Cic . Orat . appointed L. Cassius to be judge ; a man so severe , that his tribunal was called scopulus reorum ; that is , the rock on which those who were arraigned before him were ...
... cause to be tried anew ; and by a special commission Cic . Orat . appointed L. Cassius to be judge ; a man so severe , that his tribunal was called scopulus reorum ; that is , the rock on which those who were arraigned before him were ...
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... cause and origin of the Numidian war , it will be necessary to go a little back . It has been formerly observed , that Masinissa received from the Romans the kingdom of Numidia , in reward of the services he had done them against the ...
... cause and origin of the Numidian war , it will be necessary to go a little back . It has been formerly observed , that Masinissa received from the Romans the kingdom of Numidia , in reward of the services he had done them against the ...
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Page 383 - Qui autem requirunt quid quaque de re ipsi sentiamus, curiosius id faciunt quam necesse est; non enim tarn auctoritatis in disputando quam rationis momenta quaerenda sunt. Quin etiam obest plerumque iis qui discere volunt auctoritas eorum qui se docere profitentur; desinunt enim suum iudicium adhibere, id habent ratum quod ab eo quern probant iudicatum vident.
Page 546 - ... the people. But as all Patricians were incapable of the Tribunate, by its original institution, so his first step was to make himself a Plebeian by the pretence of an adoption into a Plebeian house, which could not yet be done without the suffrage of the people. This case was wholly new, and contrary to all the forms ; wanting every condition, and serving none of the ends, which were required in regular adoptions ; so that, on the first proposal, it seemed too extravagant to be treated seriously,...
Page 381 - Orat. 1. 6. 2, 2. himself, therefore, particularly for this, he attended the pleadings of all the speakers of his time ; heard the daily lectures of the most eminent orators of Greece, and was perpetually composing somewhat at home, and declaiming under their correction : and, that he might neglect nothing, which could help in any degree to improve and polish his style, he spent the intervals of his leisure in the company of the ladies ; especially of those who were remarkable for a politeness of...
Page 463 - His parts were but moderate, or rather slow; yet the comeliness of his person, the gracefulness and propriety of his action, the strength and sweetness of his voice, procured him some reputation as a speaker^.
Page 485 - ... it is no time to throw away any of the helps which we have, but, by all means possible, to acquire more. The enemy is not on the banks of the Anio, which was thought so terrible in the Punic war, but in the city and the Forum. Good gods! (I cannot speak it without a sigh,) there are some enemies in the very sanc
Page 378 - The place of his birth was Arpinum ; a city anciently of the Samnites, now part of the kingdom of Naples ; which, upon its submission to Rome, acquired the freedom of the city, and was inserted into the Cornelian tribe. It had the honour also of producing the great C. Marius ; which gave occasion to Pompey to say in a public speech, that Home was indebted to this corporation for two citizens, who had, each in his turn, preserved it from ruin1.
Page 455 - ... by the glory of his great acts. Cicero, though he had a good opinion of his cause, yet detested the inhumanity of his victory, and never speaks of him with respect, nor of his government but as a proper tyranny ; calling him a master of three most pestilent vices, luxury, avarice, cruelty s.
Page 527 - About the time of this trial Cicero bought a house of M. Crassus, on the Palatine hill, adjoining to that in which he had always lived with his father, and which he is now supposed to have given up to his brother Quintus. The house cost him near thirty thousand pounds, and seems to have been one of the noblest in Rome ; it was built about thirty years before by the famous tribune, M. Livius...
Page 389 - L. Otho, for the assignment of distinct seats, in the theatres, to the equestrian order, who used, before, to sit promiscuously with the populace : but, by this law, fourteen rows of benches, next to those of the senators, were to be appropriated to their use ; by which he secured to them, as Cicero says, both their dignity and their pleasure ". The senate obtained the same privilege, of separate seats...