Letters and Treatises of Cicero and PlinyP. F. Collier, 1909 - 438 Seiten Contains: On Friendship, On Old Age, and Letters, by Cicero and Letters, by Pliny (the Younger) |
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Aeschines affairs affection agreeable Arpinum bath Bithynia brother Brundisium Cæsar Cappadocia Cato cause character Cicero Cilicia consul consulship Corellia death decree Deiotarus delightful Demosthenes desire dignity Domitian edict EMPEROR TRAJAN enjoy Ennius Eumolpus extremely Farewell favour fear feeling former fortune friends friendship Gaius Laelius give glory gods grant happened hear Herennius Senecio honour hope judgment kind Laelius letter look Maximus means mentioned nature Nerva never Nicomedia observed occasion old age opinion orator person pleasure Polyaenus Pompey portico praetor praise present proconsul proper province Quintus reason received regard Regulus Republic request Roman Rome Scaptius Scipio seems senate sesterces shew side slaves sort speak speech Tacitus things thought Tiberius Gracchus tion told TRAJAN TO PLINY villa virtue wish word worthy write young youth
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Seite 300 - But my uncle, in order to soothe the apprehensions of his friend, assured him it was only the burning of the villages which the country people had abandoned to the flames; after this he retired to rest, and it is most certain he was so little discomposed as to fall into a deep sleep ; for being pretty fat and breathing hard, those who attended without actually heard him snore.
Seite 300 - He had already sent his baggage on board ; for though he was not at that time...
Seite 303 - Being got at a convenient distance from the houses, we stood still, in the midst of a most dangerous and dreadful scene. The chariots which we had ordered to be drawn out, were so agitated backwards and forwards, though upon the most level ground, that we could not keep them steady, even by supporting them with large ftones.
Seite 298 - I am well assured will be rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune, which, as it involved at the same time a most beautiful country in ruins, and destroyed so many populous cities, seems to promise him an everlasting remembrance ; notwithstanding he has himself composed many and lasting works ; yet I am persuaded the mentioning of him in your immortal writings will greatly contribute to eternize his name.
Seite 303 - Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid ; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open...
Seite 426 - I am unacquainted not only with the nature of their crimes, or the measure of their punishment, but how far it is proper to enter into an examination concerning them. Whether therefore any difference is usually made with respect to the ages of the guilty, or no distinction is to be observed between the young and the adult; whether...
Seite 244 - ... this was his constant method, whatever book he read, for it was a maxim of his, ' that no book was so bad, but something might be learned from it.
Seite 304 - Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but, the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world...
Seite 304 - The ashes now began to fall upon us though in no great quantity. I turned my head, and observed behind us a thick smoke, which came rolling after us like a torrent. I proposed, while we...
Seite 302 - The letter which, in compliance with your request, I wrote to you concerning the death of my uncle, has raised, it seems, your curiosity to know what terrors and dangers attended me while I continued at Misenum ; for there, I think, the account in my former broke off. 'Though my shock'd soul recoils, my tongue shall tell.