The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: Arranged According to Its Chronological Order; with a Revision of the Text, a Commentary, and Introductory Essays, Volume 5

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Hodges, Figgis & Company, 1915
 

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Pagina xliv - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Pagina 12 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Pagina 12 - Coepi egomet mecum sic cogitare: 'Hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut occisus est, quorum vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera proiecta iacent? Visne tu te, Servi, cohibere et meminisse hominem te esse natum?
Pagina 45 - Vituperatio contra Laudationem meam perspexi ex eo libro quern Hirtius ad me misit, in quo colligit vitia Catonis, sed cum maximis Laudibus meis : itaque misi librum ad Muscam, ut tuis librariis daret, volo enim eum divuZgan'.
Pagina xi - was the speech delivered by Cicero in the Senate in Caesar's presence within a few weeks of his murder.' The speech was delivered in September, 46, more than a year and a half before the deed, which was done on the Ides of March in the year 44. The sentiments of admiration for Caesar, and confidence in his patriotism, which...
Pagina 13 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side...
Pagina xxvii - We will stand as sentries over your safety, and will interpose our own bodies between you and any danger which may menace you,' to the day when he despatched to Basilus his almost inarticulate shout of exultation over the death of Caesar. The two expressions of feeling were equally sincere.

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