The Greatness and Decline of Rome, Volume 3G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - Rome |
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Page 189 - Cicero was the first of those men of letters who have been throughout the history of our civilization either the pillars of state or the workers of revolution ; the great company of rhetoricians, lawyers, and publicists under the Pagan Empire are succeeded by the apologists and fathers of the Church ; monks, lawyers, theologians, doctors, and readers appear in the Middle Ages, humanists at the time of the Renaissance ; encyclopaedists appear in the eighteenth century in France; barristers, journalists,...
Page 225 - Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
Page 249 - A monster incarnate, with all the hideous vices of a tyrant, cruelty, pride, luxury and treachery, Octavianus was the abomination of Italy.
Page 240 - Ferrero's acute analysis of her policy is correct, was also political. "She hoped by marrying Antony to save Egypt from the common fate of the other Mediterranean peoples, the fate of servitude to Rome." She had tried to attain her end through Caesar, but failing in her plan with him, sought to carry it out through Antony. It was a desperate political game played by two women for the favor of one man. Both were beautiful, brilliant, and accomplished women of the world. Both had shown themselves to...
Page 27 - III. 26-27. provocation to the conspirators, at a time when he was anxious not to compromise himself with any party. In short, the disturbances which followed Caesar's funeral were the result of longstanding political tension : when the conspirators' party had broken with Antony, they accused him of provoking the, riot by his speeches and intrigues. Such is the origin of this legend, which was greatly embellished by later historians and especially by Dion Cassius. " . , TnOVBBSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS—...
Page 317 - ... xiv. 5. 2 is rather against this.1 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO October, 1914 1 In the attempt to shed a brief gleam of parting gaiety over the preceding dull argument, I cannot deny myself the amusement of adding as a postscript the magisterial words of Ferrero (Greatness and Decline of Rome, III, 317): "Schmidt deserves the greatest credit for his discovery (the term is by no means too pretentious) that this letter was written on the morning of Mar. 17 before the senatorial session; it is but rarely...
Page 193 - Octavianus seems to have been seized with a transport of madness marked by alternating fits of mildness and ferocity. Nor is the fact difficult to explain in the case of a young man unused to violent scenes. From an early age he had been one of those nervous and delicate children brought forth by a corrupt, refined and exhausted civilisation...
Page 194 - Bc- midst of the revolution ; whereupon he became what we should call at the present day a ferocious " hustler," one of the young men produced without number by a rich and refined civilisation, who can be induced to commit the utmost cruelty and the basest atrocities by their ambition, their anxiety to succeed, their instability and their cowardice.
Page 190 - ... to harmonise the austere virtues of the Latin race with the art and wisdom of the Greeks and to disseminate throughout the Roman aristocracy that sense of equity and moderation which can often mollify the constitutional brutality or blindness of the principle that might is right. Historians have jested lightly upon Cicero and his Utopias ; his contemporaries must have thought more of them, seeing that fifteen years later they attempted to put many of them, into practice.