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Page xvi
... hand , the most eloquent orator could not remain a stranger to the art of war . Every young man , des- tined for the movements of the bar , had to commence by making some campaigns abroad , and Cicero made his in the war of the allies ...
... hand , the most eloquent orator could not remain a stranger to the art of war . Every young man , des- tined for the movements of the bar , had to commence by making some campaigns abroad , and Cicero made his in the war of the allies ...
Page xxiv
... hands , he gave him the strongest assurances , confirmed by oaths and the most solemn prot- estations , that there was no danger , and that he would rather lose his own life , than suffer any harm to approach the person of the orator ...
... hands , he gave him the strongest assurances , confirmed by oaths and the most solemn prot- estations , that there was no danger , and that he would rather lose his own life , than suffer any harm to approach the person of the orator ...
Page xxv
... hand of friendship was extended to him by Plancius , then quaestor of Macedonia , and where the praetor Apuleius , though he dared not venture to grant him openly his protection , yet connived at the acts of his quaes- tor , and took a ...
... hand of friendship was extended to him by Plancius , then quaestor of Macedonia , and where the praetor Apuleius , though he dared not venture to grant him openly his protection , yet connived at the acts of his quaes- tor , and took a ...
Page xxvii
... hands of the son of Pompey . Returning upon this , abruptly to Italy , he found in this country a safe conduct sent unto him by Caesar , who was then in Egypt , and couched in the most honourable terms.5 H. Ah , it was this that Grant ...
... hands of the son of Pompey . Returning upon this , abruptly to Italy , he found in this country a safe conduct sent unto him by Caesar , who was then in Egypt , and couched in the most honourable terms.5 H. Ah , it was this that Grant ...
Page xxix
... hands were severed from his body , conveyed to Rome , and fixed upon the rostra , the head between the two hands , by ... hand , contends for the younger Cornificius . Scaliger attributes the 1. Plut . Vit . Cic . c . 48 . 2. Liv . fragm ...
... hands were severed from his body , conveyed to Rome , and fixed upon the rostra , the head between the two hands , by ... hand , contends for the younger Cornificius . Scaliger attributes the 1. Plut . Vit . Cic . c . 48 . 2. Liv . fragm ...
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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...
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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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