Select Orations of M. Tullius Cicero

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D. Appleton, 1857 - 459 pagine
 

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Pagina 102 - Atque sic a summis hominibus eruditissimisque accepimus, ceterarum rerum studia et doctrina et praeceptis et arte constare; poe'tam natura ipsa valere et mentis viribus excitari et quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari.
Pagina 73 - Quod si rerum tuarum immortalium, C. Caesar, hie exitus futurus fuit, ut devictis adversariis rem publicam in eo statu relinqueres, in quo nunc est, vide, quaeso, ne tua divina virtus admirationis plus sit habitura quam gloriae...
Pagina 374 - Cicero, who had hitherto strenuously supported the senate, now relaxed in his exertions. Clodius attempted to prove an alibi, but Cicero's evidence showed that he was with him in Rome only three hours before he pretended to have been at Interamna. Bribery and intimidation, however, secured him an acquittal, by a majority of thirty-one to twenty-five.
Pagina 101 - Quam multas nobis imagines non solum ad intuendum, verum etiam ad imitandum fortissimorum virorum expressas scriptores et Graeci et Latini reliquerunt ! quas ego 40 mihi semper in administranda re publica proponens animum et mentem meam ipsa cogitatione hominum excellentium conformabam.
Pagina 202 - It was situated in the most conspicuous part of the city, near to the centre of all business, overlooking the forum and the rostra ; and what made it the more splendid, was its being joined to a portico or colonnade, called by the name of Catulus, who built it out of the Cimbric spoils, on that area where Flaccus formerly lived, whose house was demolished by public authority for his seditious practices with C. Gracchus'.
Pagina 83 - Nihil est tarn populare quam bonitas, nulla de virtutibus tuis plurimis nee admirabilior nee gratior misericordia est. Homines enim ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando.
Pagina 77 - Caesarem est congressus armatus. quid enim tuus ille, Tubero, destrictus in acie Pharsalica gladius agebat? cuius latus ille muero petebat? qui sensus erat armorum tuorum? quae tua mens? oculi? manus? ardor animi? quid cupiebas? quid optabas?

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