Selections from LivyAmerican Book Company, 1905 - 375 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... There is also a historical purpose . Chapters have been selected which treat the most impor- tant periods or events in the history of Rome which are covered by the remains of Livy's work . These have been found to be in general the most ...
... There is also a historical purpose . Chapters have been selected which treat the most impor- tant periods or events in the history of Rome which are covered by the remains of Livy's work . These have been found to be in general the most ...
Pagina 12
... there were the records kept by officials of the events of their magistracies , but to what extent these were preserved and were accessible appears to be doubtful . These were the only general and official sources of in- formation at the ...
... there were the records kept by officials of the events of their magistracies , but to what extent these were preserved and were accessible appears to be doubtful . These were the only general and official sources of in- formation at the ...
Pagina 14
... there was an attempt to produce something more worthy to be regarded as literature . The best example of this tendency is L. Coelius Antipater , who wrote a valuable and , at the same time , interesting account of the Second Punic War ...
... there was an attempt to produce something more worthy to be regarded as literature . The best example of this tendency is L. Coelius Antipater , who wrote a valuable and , at the same time , interesting account of the Second Punic War ...
Pagina 18
... there were conflicting stories , he accepted that which appeared to him most probable . He possessed a large fund of that quality which is most valuable to a historian — common sense ; it was this which made him look askance at the ...
... there were conflicting stories , he accepted that which appeared to him most probable . He possessed a large fund of that quality which is most valuable to a historian — common sense ; it was this which made him look askance at the ...
Pagina 19
... there is an abundance of picturesque detail , which gives color and life even to the dullest portions of the narrative . Understanding human nature and having a keen dramatic instinct , he was able to portray scenes of emotion or excite ...
... there is an abundance of picturesque detail , which gives color and life even to the dullest portions of the narrative . Understanding human nature and having a keen dramatic instinct , he was able to portray scenes of emotion or excite ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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Brani popolari
Pagina 23 - Datur haec venia antiquitati, ut miscendo humana divinis primordia urbium augustiora faciat; et si cui populo licere oportet consecrare origines suas et ad deos referre auctores, ea belli gloria est populo Romano, ut, cum suum conditorisque sui parentem Martem potissimum ferat, tam et hoc gentes humanae patiantur aequo animo, quam imperium g patiuntur.
Pagina 24 - Imperium patiuntur. sed haec et his similia, utcumque animadversa aut existimata erunt, haud in magno equidem 9 ponam discrimine : ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quae vita, qui mores fuerint, per quos viros quibusque artibus domi militiaeque et partum et auctum Imperium sit...
Pagina 25 - ... ubi tantus ac tam diu paupertati ac parsimoniae honos fuerit. adeo, quanto rerum minus, tanto minus cupiditatis erat. nuper divitiae avaritiam et abundantes voluptates desiderium per luxum atque libidinem pereundi perdendique omnia invexere.
Pagina 61 - ... sabino bello ait se militantem, quia propter populationes agri non fructu modo caruerit, sed villa incensa fuerit, direpta omnia, pecora abacta, tributum iniquo suo tempore imperatum, aes alienum fecisse. Id, cumulatum usuris, primo se agro paterno avitoque exuisse, deinde fortunis aliis, postremo velut tabem pervenisse ad corpus; ductum se ab creditore non in servitium, sed in ergastulum et carnificinam esse.
Pagina 141 - ... parva quoque, ut ferme principia omnia, et ea ipsa peregrina res fuit. Sine carmine ullo, sine imitandorum carminum actu ludiones ex Etruria acciti, ad tibicinis modos saltantes, haud indecoros motus more Tusco dabant.
Pagina 44 - Quirites, parens urbis huius, prima hodierna luce caelo repente delapsus se mihi obvium dedit. cum perfusus horrore venerabundus adstitissem, petens precibus, 7 ut contra intueri fas esset : 'abi, nuntia...
Pagina 245 - ... et animus suus cuique ante aut post pugnandi ordinem dabat, tantusque fuit ardor animorum, adeo intentus pugnae animus, ut eum motum terrae, qui multarum urbium Italiae magnas partes prostravit avertitque cursu rapidos amnes, mare fluminibus invexit, montes 280 lapsu ingenti proruit, nemo pugnantium senserit.
Pagina 27 - Helenae semper auctores fuerunt, 2 omne ius belli Achivos abstinuisse ; casibus deinde variis Antenorem cum multitudine Enetum, qui seditione ex Paphlagonia pulsi et sedes et ducem rege Pylaemene ad Troiam amisso quaerebant, 3 venisse in intimum maris Hadriatici sinum, Euganeisque, qui inter mare Alpesque incolebant, pulsis, Enetos Troianosque eas tenuisse terras.
Pagina 24 - Hoc illud est praecipue in cognitione rerum salubre ac frugiferum, omnis te exempli documenta in inlustri posita monumento intueri; inde tibi tuaeque rei publicae, quod imitere, capias, inde foedum inceptu, foedum exitu, quod vites.
Pagina 332 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...