The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: arranged according to its chronological order; with a revision of the text, a commentary, and introductory essays on the life of Cicero and the style of his letters, Volume 3Hodges, Foster, & Figgis, 1890 - Authors, Latin |
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Page xxxi - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page xxix - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page xxviii - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Page xliii - Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Page xxix - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 7, By any indirection.
Page 244 - For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
Page xciv - Even now there are various regions of the East, as of the West, as regards which the imperial period marks a climax of good government^ very modest in itself, but...
Page 175 - Ille vero ante decemviros non fuit, quippe qui aedilis curulis fuerit, qui magistratus multis annis post decemviros institutus est. Quid ergo profecit, quod protulit fastos? Occultatam putant quodam tempore istam tabulam, ut dies agendi peterentur a paucis.