The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Volumen3J. Johnson, 1795 - 438 páginas |
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... Cato . ' HERE is a fpeech of Marcus Cato , in which he cenfures the election of ædiles without the aufpices . In that fpeech are these words : " Nunc ita aiunt , in fegetibus et in her- bis bona frumenta effe , nolite ibi nimiam fpem ...
... Cato . ' HERE is a fpeech of Marcus Cato , in which he cenfures the election of ædiles without the aufpices . In that fpeech are these words : " Nunc ita aiunt , in fegetibus et in her- bis bona frumenta effe , nolite ibi nimiam fpem ...
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... Cato cum effet Tufculi natus in populi Romani civitatem fufceptus eft.- The founder of this family was Marcus Porcius Cato , who was firft called Prifcus , accordin to Plutarch , and the cog nomen of Cato was retained by his pofterity ...
... Cato cum effet Tufculi natus in populi Romani civitatem fufceptus eft.- The founder of this family was Marcus Porcius Cato , who was firft called Prifcus , accordin to Plutarch , and the cog nomen of Cato was retained by his pofterity ...
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... Cato the cenfor , who was the father of that Marcus Cato of prætorian rank , who , in the civil war , flew himself at Utica with his own fword ; upon whofe life there is a book of Marcus Cicero , entitled , " Laus Marci Catonis , " in ...
... Cato the cenfor , who was the father of that Marcus Cato of prætorian rank , who , in the civil war , flew himself at Utica with his own fword ; upon whofe life there is a book of Marcus Cicero , entitled , " Laus Marci Catonis , " in ...
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... Cato , who , in the life - time of his father , died prætor - elect , and left fome excellent books tipon law fubjects , fprung this Marcus Cato Nepos , the subject of our enquiry . He was a speaker of fome energy , and left many ...
... Cato , who , in the life - time of his father , died prætor - elect , and left fome excellent books tipon law fubjects , fprung this Marcus Cato Nepos , the subject of our enquiry . He was a speaker of fome energy , and left many ...
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Aulus Gellius. CHAP . XXIII . The very elegant reproof of Marcus Cato , of confular and cenforian dignity , against those who are phi- lofophers in name , and not in conduct . ARCUS Cato , who had been conful MARCU and cenfor , when ...
Aulus Gellius. CHAP . XXIII . The very elegant reproof of Marcus Cato , of confular and cenforian dignity , against those who are phi- lofophers in name , and not in conduct . ARCUS Cato , who had been conful MARCU and cenfor , when ...
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Página 318 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Página 289 - By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down.
Página 202 - He is said to have invented the famous argument against motion: "if any body be moved, it is either moved in the place where it is, or in a place where it is not; but it is not moved in the place where it is, for where it is, it remains ; nor is it moved in a place where it is not, for nothing can either act or suffer where it is not; therefore there is no such thing as motion.
Página 404 - They amuse the mind by the remembrance of old words and the portrait of ancient manners; they inculcate the soundest principles of government and morals; and I am not afraid to affirm, that the brief composition of the Decemvirs surpasses in genuine value the libraries of Grecian philosophy. How admirable," says Tully, with honest or affected prejudice, "is the wisdom of our ancestors!
Página 18 - His clam'rous grief the bellowing wood refounds. . . .) So grieves Achilles ; and impetuous, vents To all his Myrmidons, his loud laments. In what vain promife, gods ! did I engage, When to confole Menoetius...
Página 37 - XIII. 14, pomerium est locus intra agrum effatum per totius urbis circuitum pone muros regionibus certis determinatus, qui facit finem urbani auspicii.
Página 371 - Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife...
Página 288 - Forth. from whofe nitrous caverns iduing rife Pure liquid fountains of tempeftuous fire, And veil in ruddy mifts the noon-day fkies, While wrapt in fmoke the eddying flames afpire, Or gleaming through the night with hideous roar Far o'er the reddening main huge rocky fragments pour.
Página 371 - Juft hint a fault, and hefitate diflike ; " Alike referv'd to blame, or to commend, *' A tim'rous foe, and a fufpicious friend ; " Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers befieg'd, " And fo obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd...
Página 54 - The rural honors, and increase the year ; You who supply the ground with seeds of grain ; And you, who swell those seeds with kindly rain ; And chiefly thou, whose undetermined state Is yet the business of the gods' debate. Whether in after times, to be declared, The patron of the world, and Rome's peculiar guard, Or o'er the fruits and seasons to preside, And the round circuit of the year to guide — Powerful of blessings, which thou strew'st around, And with thy...