Ten orations of Cicero: with selections from the Letters

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American book Company, 1898 - 562 pagine

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Pagina 273 - Lucius CATILINA nobili genere natus fuit, magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque.
Pagina 329 - It was not difficult to represent the war as a national one of the east against the west, for such it was ; it might very well be made a religious war also, and the report might be spread that the object aimed at by the army of Lucullus was the temple of the Persian Nanaea or Anaitis in Elymais or the modern Luristan, the most celebrated and the richest shrine in the whole region of the Euphrates.1 From far 1 Cicero (De Imp.
Pagina 273 - Catilina, nobili genere natus, fuit magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque. Huic ab adulescentia bella intestina, caedes, rapinae, discordia civilis grata fuere, ibique iuventutem suam exercuit. Corpus patiens inediae, algoris, vigiliae, supra quam cuiquam credibile est.
Pagina 313 - Duo genera semper in hac civitate fuerunt eorum, qui versari in re publica atque in ea se excellentius gerere studuerunt ; quibus ex generibus alteri se populares, alteri optimates et haberi et esse voluerunt. Qui ea, quae faciebant quaeque dicebant, multitudini iucunda volebant esse, populares, qui autem ita se gerebant, ut sua consilia optimo cuique 97 probarent, optimates habebantur. " Quis ergo iste optimus quisque...
Pagina 334 - Trc&elv) to wish, and leave the realization of one's wish to others, or to fate, like jrcfeeiv ; exp etere, to wish, and apply to others for the realization of one's wish, like opeyea^ai,.
Pagina 316 - Career ; and is still to be seen on the eastern slope of the Capitoline hill, to the right of the ascent from the Forum. The name Mamertinus, usually applied to the Career, is mediaeval and not classical.
Pagina 276 - I do not know by what rites it has been consecrated and vowed by you that you think it necessary to bury it in the body of the consul.
Pagina 40 - Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hie 10 tarnen vivit. Vivit? immo vero etiam in senatum venit, fit publici consili particeps, notât et désignât oculis ad caedem unum quemque nostrum. Nos autem, fortes viri, satis faceré rei publicae videmur, si istius furorem ac tela vitamus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci iussu consulis iam pridem oportebat, in te conferri pestem quam tu in nos 15 omnis iam diu machinaris.

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