The Olynthiac Speeches of DemosthenesUniversity Press, 1897 - 104 pagine |
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Pagina xxxv - When you return to these again, you feel, by the emptiness and deadness of them, that you converse with some dreaming pedant with his elbow on his desk ; not with an active, ambitious tyrant, with his hand on his sword, commanding a million of subjects.
Pagina 86 - Longe mihi alia mens est, patres conscripti, cum res atque pericula nostra considero et cum s sententias nonnullorum ipse mecum reputo. illi •mihi disseruisse videntur de poena eorum, qui patriae parentibus aris atque focis suis bellum paravere; res autem monet cavere ab illis magis quam, * quid in illos statuamus, consultare. nam cetera malelicia tum persequare, ubi facta sunt; hoc nisi provideris ne accidat, ubi evenit, frustra indicia 5implores: capta urbe nihil fit reliqui victis.