Marcus Tullius Cicero. Ten Orations with the Letters to His WifeMacmillan, 1903 - 518 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... praetor . While holding this office he made a bid for popular Praetor . favor and the good - will of Pompey by delivering in the Forum the oration Pro Lege Manilia1 in support of the law investing Pompey with supreme command in the war ...
... praetor . While holding this office he made a bid for popular Praetor . favor and the good - will of Pompey by delivering in the Forum the oration Pro Lege Manilia1 in support of the law investing Pompey with supreme command in the war ...
Pagina 22
... praetor . In 66 B.C. he announced himself a candidate for the consulship . From this canvass , however , he was debarred on account of an action then pending against him for the extortions which he had committed the previous year when ...
... praetor . In 66 B.C. he announced himself a candidate for the consulship . From this canvass , however , he was debarred on account of an action then pending against him for the extortions which he had committed the previous year when ...
Pagina 27
... The other conspirators followed , each in charge of a praetor . There the sentence was executed . When all was over , Cicero the sentence . Execution of The fate of Catiline . Mithridates . turned toward the TEN ORATIONS OF CICERO 27.
... The other conspirators followed , each in charge of a praetor . There the sentence was executed . When all was over , Cicero the sentence . Execution of The fate of Catiline . Mithridates . turned toward the TEN ORATIONS OF CICERO 27.
Pagina 33
... praetor Quintus Cicero , the Cicero's orator's brother . Grattius seems to have failed signally in both proof and argument . Cicero was easily able to establish the fact that the citizenship which Archias had exercised for twenty- seven ...
... praetor Quintus Cicero , the Cicero's orator's brother . Grattius seems to have failed signally in both proof and argument . Cicero was easily able to establish the fact that the citizenship which Archias had exercised for twenty- seven ...
Pagina 50
... praetor , or dictator . Gradually its im- portance began to wane . After the first century of the republic some of its powers were surrendered to the senate , others to the courts , while others still were assumed by the comitia tributa ...
... praetor , or dictator . Gradually its im- portance began to wane . After the first century of the republic some of its powers were surrendered to the senate , others to the courts , while others still were assumed by the comitia tributa ...
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Pagina 321 - ... given him. As the price of provisions fell immediately, the people were greatly pleased, and it gave them occasion to say, " The very name of Pompey had terminated the war.
Pagina 43 - But when Cicero began to speak, he wonderfully moved him, and proceeded in his speech with such varied pathos, and such a charm of language, that the color of Caesar's countenance often changed, and it was evident that all the passions of his soul were in commotion. At length, the orator touching upon the...
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Pagina 286 - Quis sim, ex eo quem ad te misi cognosces. Fac cogites in quanta calamitate sis, et memineris te virum esse : consideres quid tuae rationes postulent : auxilium petas ab omnibus, etiam ab infimis.
Pagina 21 - We have seen how frequently he was employed in composition before the sun had risen, and few men could with less justice say of themselves, like Titus, Dicmperdidi! To appreciate his full worth let us consider what a blank there would have been in the annals of Rome and the history 1 The head of Cicero, facing the title- tudo.
Pagina 264 - Primum omnium, qui ubique probro atque petulantia maxime praestabant, item alii per dedecora patrimoniis amissis, postremo omnes, quos flagitium aut facinus domo expulerat, ii Romam sicut in sentinam"
Pagina 515 - ... knowledge of the Latin tongue is needed to appreciate his stately and finished verse, not to speak of the maturer intellect necessary to grasp the meaning and content of so great an epic. This edition, intended primarily for the use of schools, consists of about three thousand verses carefully annotated and about one thousand verses for rapid reading, with brief notes at the bottom of the page. In the belief that the Metamorphoses are best adapted for an introduction to Latin verse, the selections...