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Page xii
... Roman citizenship , and the privilege , consequently , of voting at the comitia . The birth - year of Cicero was also that of Pompey , who was a few months his junior ; 1 while Arpinum , the orator's natal place , was likewise famous ...
... Roman citizenship , and the privilege , consequently , of voting at the comitia . The birth - year of Cicero was also that of Pompey , who was a few months his junior ; 1 while Arpinum , the orator's natal place , was likewise famous ...
Page xvi
... Roman youth who were possessed neither of fortune nor family influence ; the path of arms and that of eloquence . Oratorical talents were sure of finding at Rome a thousand opportunities of display- ing themselves , either in the ...
... Roman youth who were possessed neither of fortune nor family influence ; the path of arms and that of eloquence . Oratorical talents were sure of finding at Rome a thousand opportunities of display- ing themselves , either in the ...
Page xxiv
... Roman citizen without a trial before the people , and in flicting the penalty of exile . The blow was aimed at Cicero , who , how ever , in ordering the punishment of Catiline's accomplices , had only obeyed the mandate of the senate ...
... Roman citizen without a trial before the people , and in flicting the penalty of exile . The blow was aimed at Cicero , who , how ever , in ordering the punishment of Catiline's accomplices , had only obeyed the mandate of the senate ...
Page xxv
... Roman praetor sent him word that he must not set foot within it , and what made the shock still more cruel was this , that the magistrate in question had been an old and familiar friend , was under important obligations to Cicero , and ...
... Roman praetor sent him word that he must not set foot within it , and what made the shock still more cruel was this , that the magistrate in question had been an old and familiar friend , was under important obligations to Cicero , and ...
Page xxxi
... Roman orators from the earliest periods to his own time . This work is of great value , as regards the history of Roman eloquence , but it is not as interest- ing as its title would lead you to expect . It contains too many names , and ...
... Roman orators from the earliest periods to his own time . This work is of great value , as regards the history of Roman eloquence , but it is not as interest- ing as its title would lead you to expect . It contains too many names , and ...
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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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