Selections from Cicero: orations, letters, and De senectute

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Allyn and Bacon, 1922 - 508 pagine
 

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Pagina 91 - Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum ; et, quasi cognatione quadam, inter se continentur.
Pagina 1 - Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra ? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet ? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia...
Pagina 97 - ... haec studia adulescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solacium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris. pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Pagina 134 - MAJOR, says of Appius :—' Intentum enim animum tanquam arcum habebat, nee languescens succumbebat senectuti;' repeating, at the same time, the following noble words in the same passage...
Pagina 329 - Macedon, with skill, courage, success. Accused forty-four times, accuser as often, the greyeyed, red-haired man had literally fought his way up with his rough-and-ready wit, his nervous oratory, his practical ability and business habits. For thirty-five years the most influential man in Rome, he had acted in every capacity, as general, administrator, and envoy. He was a man whose virtues served his own ends, whose real but well-trumpeted austerity was a stalking-horse for his personal acrimony and...
Pagina 95 - Ego vero fateor me his studiis esse deditum. Ceteros pudeat, si qui ita se litteris abdiderunt ut nihil possint ex...

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