Cato major de senectute: Laelius de amicitia

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Eldredge & Brother, 1872

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Pagina 114 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home.
Pagina 155 - Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil, The gradual culture of Kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection.
Pagina 112 - Monomachus and Mago the Samnite, were guilty of doing in his name, nothing occurs in the accounts regarding him which may not be justified in the circumstances, and according to the international law, of the times ; and all agree in this, that he combined in rare perfection discretion and enthusiasm, caution and energy.
Pagina 122 - In this select circle the master-works of Greek literature were read and criticised ; the problems of Greek philosophy were discussed ; and the highest interests of human life became the subject of thoughtful conversation. Though no poet of original genius arose from this society, it exercised a most powerful influence on the progress of Roman literature. It formed a tribunal of good taste ; and much of the correctness, simplicity, and manliness of the classical Latin is due to that " Cosmopolitan...
Pagina 120 - ... of the crime. The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part. Conscious of the best intentions and of no common abilities, he was doomed to see the ruin of his country carried out before his eyes, and to repress within him every earnest attempt to save it, because...
Pagina 84 - Nate 1.— It is, however, remarkable that the plural of abstract nouns is much more common in Latin than in our own language, to denote a repetition of the same thing, or its existence in different objects.
Pagina 124 - bridgebuilders" (pontifices) derived their name from Pontiflccs. . . „ . i ,. . ,1 their function, as sacred as it was politically important, of conducting the building and demolition of the bridge over the Tiber.
Pagina 111 - Romans, behold old Ennius ! whose lays Built up on high your mighty fathers' praise ! Pour not the wail of mourning o'er my bier, Nor pay to me the tribute of a tear: Still, still I live ! from mouth to mouth I fly ! Never forgotten , never shall I die ! The works of Ennius are believed to have existed entire so late as the thirteenth century (A.

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