Specimens of Roman Literature: Passages Illustrative of Roman Thought and Style : Selected from the Works of Latin Authors (prose Writers and Poets) from the Earliest Period to the Times of the Antonines : For the Use of Students

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Charles Thomas Cruttwell
C. Griffin, 1879 - 701 pagine

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A Brave Man never yields to Adversity
42
No Quality begets Confidence so much as Justice Cic
48
Cic
50
A GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT
60
An Attitude of Independent Criticism more
66
Value of a Knowledge of Geometry
72
It is useless to indulge Grief
83
Magic is connected with Daemonic Agency
89
The Character that most wins our Admiration
91
Ought Children to obey their Fathers Will
97
How far is it admissible to desire Professional
102
Transportation of the Populace of Alba
106
Poverty more Conducive to Virtue than Riches
108
Lucr
111
Character of Cato the Censor
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There is a Citizenship of
117
A Sketch of Forensic Eloquence during the First
120
Cic
121
98
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Nevertheless a Subordinate Position gives Suf
127
Exile not an Evil
133
Any Repudiation of its Engagements by the State
143
Cic
147
A Dear Little Girl
148
Individual Attention cannot be given
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g Though Atoms are without Sensation
154
In the Sphere of Physical Speculation Certainty
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Cic
156
Lucr
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Eruption of Vesuvius
160
The Existing Universe the Result of a cer
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The Tortures of a Guilty Conscience
166
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
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Ovid
175
Plin N H
185
The Causes of Meteors explained
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There are eight Main Quarters from which
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Vitrur
206
Apul
207
The Different Classes of Vegetable and Animal
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The Marvellous Variety of Animal Life
218
Some Particulars as to the Geographical Distri
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A Comparison of Man with the rest of Creation
228
Aul Gell
234
Cels
240
Plin N H
245
Quint
251
The Value of Music as bracing the Mental Tone
259
The Son is sure to exceed the measure of Wicked
264
Defence of the Practice of Contamination
265
g Also with Legal Knowledge History
274
The Orators Style distinct from that of the Philo
278
Main Heads of Treatment applicable to all Cases
284
Sen Rh
314
Cic
317
Cic
323
Description of the Eloquence of the Rhetorician
329
Account of the Literary Labours of the Elder
335
The Analogy between Poetry and Painting
337
Horace complains that the Romans showed
343
Pliny relates the flattering Reception of
349
the Grammarian at first styled
355
This Analogy so far as Natural is a
358
Cic
361
Aul Gell
364
On Euphonic Variations of Termination in
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A Lovers Pangs
380
An Escape from Shipwreck
384
The Advantages of an Easy Temper
390
A Single Combat
397
Letter written on the Death of Caesar
403
The Encounter between Clodius and Milo
409
An Omen
420
are distinct
425
Conjugal Love
426
The Gates of Hell
432
The Town and Country Mouse
438
Elegy on the Death of Tibullus
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PERIOD III 14180 A D
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Character of Pompey
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A Lapdog
478
Murder of Britannicus
494
Miraculous Cures wrought by Vespasian
500
Assassination of Domitian
507
The Story of Polycrates Ring
517
Aemil Paull
524
An Invective
530
Punishment should be guided by Reason
536
A Prophecy
542
The mother of Euryalus laments the death of her son Virg
547
The Shade of Cornelia exhorts her Husband
553
A Lover chides a Stream which bars his path
559
The Dictator Fabius tells his Troops that their
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Ode to Bacchus
579
Statius commends his Poem to the Approbation
586
Neros Insidious Reply
592
Aur
600
Casting Lots for a Wife
605
Sagaristio pokes fun at the Persian
614
Aul Gell
620
The Standard of Right should be in Ones Self
622
Precepts of Gastronomy
633
Last Will and Testament of a Sucking Pig
639
Some Farms are not worth the Price of a Dinner Mart
645
Index to Authors
651
Vitruv
652
Mela
653

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Pagina 489 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Pagina 430 - Non sic, aggeribus ruptis quum spumeus amnis Exiit oppositasque evicit gurgite moles, Fertur in arva furens cumulo, camposque per omnes Cum stabulis armenta trahit.
Pagina 174 - Namque canebat, uti magnum per inane coacta semina terrarumque animaeque marisque fuissent et liquidi simul ignis; ut his exordia primis omnia et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis...
Pagina 423 - Comata silva: nam Cytorio in iugo Loquente saepe sibilum edidit coma. Amastri Pontica et Cytore buxifer, Tibi haec fuisse et esse cognitissima Ait phaselus...
Pagina 345 - Aura feret geminusque Pollux. XXX. EXEOI monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam : usque ego postera Crescam laude recens dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.
Pagina 439 - ... non domus ulla fores habuit ; non fixus in agris, qui regeret certis finibus arva, lapis. ipsae mella dabant quercus, ultroque ferebant obvia securis ubera lactis oves. non acies, non ira fuit, non bella, nee ensem immiti saevus duxerat arte faber.
Pagina 340 - ... agedum, pauca accipe contra. primum ego me illorum dederim quibus esse poetas excerpam numero: neque enim concludere versum 40 dixeris esse satis; neque si qui scribat uti nos sermoni propiora, putes hunc esse poetam, ingenium cui sit, cui mens divinior atque os magna sonaturum, des nominis huius honorem.
Pagina 498 - Galba, tribus et septuaginta annis quinque principes prospera fortuna emensus, et alieno imperio felicior quam suo. vetus in familia nobilitas, magnae opes: ipsi medium ingenium, magis extra vitia quam cum virtutibus. famae nec incuriosus nec venditator. pecuniae alienae non adpetens, suae parcus, publicae avarus. amicorum libertorumque, ubi in bonos incidisset, sine reprehensione patiens, si mali forent, usque ad culpam ignarus.
Pagina 428 - Terra tremit : fugere ferae, et mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor : ille flagranti Aut Atho, aut Rhodopen, aut alta Ceraunia telo Deicit : ingeminant Austri, et densissimus imber : Nunc nemora ingenti vento, nunc litora plangunt.
Pagina 428 - Non alios prima crescentis origine mundi Illuxisse dies, aliumve habuisse tenorem Crediderim : ver illud erat ; ver magnus agebat Orbis, et hibernis parcebant flatibus Euri : Cum primae lucem pecudes hausere, virumque 340 Terrea progenies duris caput extulit arvis, Immissaeque ferae silvis, et sidera caelo.

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