The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order, Volumen6

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Hodges, Foster, & Figgis, 1899

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Página l - Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at : thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge ; Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsed'st : on the Alps, It is reported, thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on : and- all this (It wounds thine honor that I speak it now) Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek So much as lank'd not. Lep. 'Tis pity...
Página xciv - O, you and I have heard our fathers say There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
Página 259 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Página xciv - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music...
Página lxvi - But while Cicero stands justly charged with many grave infirmities of temper and defects of principle, while we remark with a sigh the vanity, the inconstancy, and the ingratitude he so often manifested, while we lament his ignoble subserviences and his ferocious resentments, the high standard by which we claim to judge him is in itself the fullest acknowledgment of his transcendent merits. For undoubtedly had he not placed himself on a higher moral level than the statesmen and sages of his day,...
Página 291 - NEPOTEM 1. locos enim hoc genus veteres nostri 'dicta' dicebant. testis idem Cicero, qui in libra epistulartim ad Cornelium Nepotem secundo sic ait: itaque nostri, cum omnia quae dixissemus 'dicta' essent, quae facete et breviter et acute locuti essemus, ea proprio nomine appellari 'dicta
Página 312 - Mearum epistularum nulla est 6waya>yt'¡: sed habet Tiro instar septuaginta; et quidem sunt a te quaedam sumendae. Eas ego oportet perspiciam. ; corrigam. Turn denique edentur.

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