Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old AgeP.F. Collier & Son, 1909 - 438 pagina's |
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero Volledige weergave - 1909 |
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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affairs affection agreeable Appius Arpinum Atticus Bithynia brother Brundisium Brutus Cæsar Cappadocia Cato cause character charm Cicero Cilicia consul consulship Corcyra Corellia death decree Deiotarus delightful desire Domitian edict EMPEROR TRAJAN enjoy Ennius everything fact Fannius Farewell favour fear feeling fortune friends friendship Gaius Gaius Fannius Gaius Laelius give Greek happened hear honour hope kind Laelius letter lived look MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO matter Maximus means ment mentioned mind nature never occasion old age opinion orator person philosophers pleasure political Pompey praetor praise present province publicani Quintus reason received regard Regulus Republic request Roman Rome Scaevola Scaptius Scipio seems senate sesterces shew sort soul speak speech Spurius Maelius Statius things thought Tiberius Gracchus tion told TRAJAN TO PLINY villa virtue wise wish word write young youth
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Pagina 325 - though indeed the voice at the same time' is strengthened by this practice. I then take another walk, am anointed, do my exercises, and go into the bath. At supper, if I have only my wife or a few friends with me, some author is read to us; and after
Pagina 203 - home, he gave what time was left to study. After a short and light refreshment at noon (agreeably to the good old custom of our ancestors) he would frequently in the summer, if he was disengaged from business, lie down and bask in the sun; during which time some author was read to him, while he took notes and
Pagina 167 - this way : for how agreeably should we have spent the evening, in laughing, trifling, and literary amusements ! You may sup, I confess, at many places more splendidly; but nowhere with more unconstrained mirth, simplicity, and freedom: only make the experiment, and if you do not ever after excuse yourself to your
Pagina 392 - because the victors, drawn by white horses, and wearing crowns on their heads, were conducted with great pomp into their respective cities, which they entered through a breach in the walls made for that purpose; intimating, as Plutarch observes, that a city which produced such able and victorious citizens, had little occasion for the defence of walls
Pagina 381 - To THE EMPEROR TRAJAN IT is my invariable rule, Sir, to refer to you in all matters where I feel doubtful; for who is more capable of removing my scruples, or informing my ignorance?
Pagina 243 - from whence, after a long absence, he lately returned with great benefit to his health. But having again exerted himself for several days together beyond his strength, he was reminded of his former malady by a slight return of his cough, and a spitting of blood. For this reason I intend to send him to your farm at Forum-Julii,
Pagina 199 - poverty, has by a train of villainies acquired such immense riches that he once told me, upon consulting the omens to know how soon he should be worth sixty millions of sesterces,* he found them so favourable as to portend he should possess double that sum. And possibly he may, if
Pagina 163 - I am very sensible how much nobler it is to place the reward of virtue in the silent approbation of one's own breast than in the applause of the world. Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and
Pagina 246 - than I appear at the bar), I always give the advocates as much time as they require: for I look upon it as highly presuming to pretend to guess, before a case is heard, what time it will require, and to set limits to an affair before one is acquainted with its extent; especially as the first and most sacred duty
Pagina 23 - From which of them? Do you mean from those carried on by youth and bodily strength? Are there then no old men's employments to be after all conducted by the intellect, even when bodies are weak? So then Q. Maximus did nothing; nor L. Aemilius—your father, Scipio, and my excellent son's father-in-law ! So with other old men—the