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Pagina 12
... senate for life and entitle him to draw lots for a province . In 75 he accordingly went to western Sicily . Here he administered his duties with scrupulous honesty . On his return to Rome in 74 he found that he had fallen out of public ...
... senate for life and entitle him to draw lots for a province . In 75 he accordingly went to western Sicily . Here he administered his duties with scrupulous honesty . On his return to Rome in 74 he found that he had fallen out of public ...
Pagina 14
... nent candidates from such families in 64. Cicero and Antonius were elected consuls for the next year . Elections in Rome were held at the dates set by the senate , usually in July . The ambitus , or canvass for 14 INTRODUCTION.
... nent candidates from such families in 64. Cicero and Antonius were elected consuls for the next year . Elections in Rome were held at the dates set by the senate , usually in July . The ambitus , or canvass for 14 INTRODUCTION.
Pagina 15
... senate was lukewarm in the matter and allowed Catiline to leave the senate house free and defiant . With fresh information at hand Cicero again convened the senate and pre- sented the facts concerning the movements of Manlius , com ...
... senate was lukewarm in the matter and allowed Catiline to leave the senate house free and defiant . With fresh information at hand Cicero again convened the senate and pre- sented the facts concerning the movements of Manlius , com ...
Pagina 16
... senate together and attacked the chief conspirator in the powerful First Speech against Catiline . Catiline immediately left the city.1 On the next day ( November 9 ) Cicero spoke to the assembled citizens , announcing Catiline's ...
... senate together and attacked the chief conspirator in the powerful First Speech against Catiline . Catiline immediately left the city.1 On the next day ( November 9 ) Cicero spoke to the assembled citizens , announcing Catiline's ...
Pagina 17
... senate was too weak to deal with the affairs of a great state , with boundaries far afield . That the political ingenu- ity of the Romans failed for the time to invent fresh machinery short of despotism is perhaps due to the terrible ...
... senate was too weak to deal with the affairs of a great state , with boundaries far afield . That the political ingenu- ity of the Romans failed for the time to invent fresh machinery short of despotism is perhaps due to the terrible ...
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Pagina 44 - ... Gymnasium 64 (1957) 131. See RG Austin (Aen. 2.21) on the epic mannerism in the following in eum locum (55.5). quod Tullianum appellatur: after Ennius, eg Ann. 409, Sc. 345V, attraction of the relative where the predicative noun is a name is attested only in prose. See Kuhner-Stegmann, i.38f. The career, between the Temple of Concord and the Curia at the foot of the Capitol, consisted of several rooms, of which the Tullianum was the death-chamber. No satisfactory explanation of the name Tullianum...