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Page xiii
... alludes in the memorable oration where he defends the poet's citizenship . H. Do you not think , Doctor , that he rates somewhat too highly the merits of this Archias ? Dodgson , of Christ - Church , one of Dean Ire- land's scholars ...
... alludes in the memorable oration where he defends the poet's citizenship . H. Do you not think , Doctor , that he rates somewhat too highly the merits of this Archias ? Dodgson , of Christ - Church , one of Dean Ire- land's scholars ...
Page xxi
... alluded to , was midway in his career of public honours ; the consulship was before him , and the hope of attaining to this darling prize of his ambition , through he influence of Pompey , must have exercised some degree of control ...
... alluded to , was midway in his career of public honours ; the consulship was before him , and the hope of attaining to this darling prize of his ambition , through he influence of Pompey , must have exercised some degree of control ...
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... allusion will occasionally be made to the history of his later years in our remarks on his literary efforts . - The extraordinary but well - merited hon- ours conferred upon Cicero for crushing this formidable conspiracy , could not ...
... allusion will occasionally be made to the history of his later years in our remarks on his literary efforts . - The extraordinary but well - merited hon- ours conferred upon Cicero for crushing this formidable conspiracy , could not ...
Page xxvii
... allude were those no doubt which attended the commencement of the civil contest . - How did he act du- ring their continuance ? Dr. B. In the first outbreaking of this memorable war , Caesar and Pompey were both anxious to gain over a ...
... allude were those no doubt which attended the commencement of the civil contest . - How did he act du- ring their continuance ? Dr. B. In the first outbreaking of this memorable war , Caesar and Pompey were both anxious to gain over a ...
Page xxx
... alluded to by Cicero , in the commencement of his treatise " De Oratore , " as having been published by him in his youth . It is generally believed to have been written by him when twenty - four years of age , and to have originally ...
... alluded to by Cicero , in the commencement of his treatise " De Oratore , " as having been published by him in his youth . It is generally believed to have been written by him when twenty - four years of age , and to have originally ...
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Page 120 - ... solos sapientes esse, si distortissimi sint, formosos ; si mendicissimi, divites ; si servitutem serviant, reges : nos autem, qui sapientes non sumus, fugitivos, exsules, hostes, insanos denique esse dicunt : omnia peccata esse paria : omne delictum scelus esse nefarium, nee minus delinquere eum, qui gallum gallinaceum, cum opus non fuerit, quam eum, qui patrem suffocaverit : sapientem nihil opinari, nullius rei paenitere, nulla in re falli, sententiam mutare numquam.
Page xxix - Dr. B. The attendants, as soon as the soldiers appeared, prepared themselves for action, being resolved to defend their master's life at the hazard of their own ; but Cicero commanded them to set down the litter in which they were conveying him, and to make no resistance...
Page 52 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Page 161 - A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of a spear, sometimes holding a thunderbolt in its claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio. xl. 18., was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before that the figures of other animals were used, Plin.
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