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Pagina xxxi - In point of effect, this oration must have been perfectly electric. The disclosure to the criminal himself of his most secret purposes : their flagitious nature, threatening the life of every one present ; the whole course of his...
Pagina 149 - ... judices, ut a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo aut otium meum abstraxerit aut voluptas avocarjt aut denique somnus retardant ? Quare quis tandem me reprehendat aut quis mihi jure succenseat, si quantum ceteris ad suas res obeundas...
Pagina 153 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Pagina 33 - ... parricida civium interfecto invidiae mihi in posteritatem redundaret. Quod si ea mihi maxime impenderet, tamen hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam virtute partam gloriam, non invidiam putarem...
Pagina xx - ... consuls and praetors were disqualified from holding any province, till five years after the expiration of their magistracies ; and, that there might be a supply of governors during this interval of five years, the senators of consular and praetorian rank, who had never held any foreign command, were to divide the vacant provinces among themselves by lot. Cicero, in consequence of this, obtained the government of Cilicia,^ a province which included also Pisidia, Pamphylia, and three districts...
Pagina 155 - Quae vero accurate cogitateque scripsisset, ea sic vidi probari, ut ad veterum scriptorum laudem perveniret. Hunc ego non diligam, non admirer, non omni ratione defendendum putem ? Atqui sic a summis hominibus eruditissimisque accepimus, ceterarum rerum studia et doctrina et praeceptis et arte constare, poetam natura ipsa valere et mentis viribus excitari et quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari.
Pagina 155 - ... accepimus: ceterarum rerum studia et doctrina et praeceptis et arte constare, poetam natura ipsa valere et mentis viribus excitari et quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari. quare suo iure noster ille Ennius sanctos appellat poetas, quod quasi deorum aliquo dono atque munere commendati nobis esse videantur.
Pagina 132 - This is one of the orations of Cicero on which he has succeeded in bestowing the finest polish, and it is perhaps the most pleasing of all his harangues.

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