Cicero : Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC); greatest of Roman orators, he was scholar, lawyer, writer, & staunch upholder of republican principles during the civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. His surviving letters “constitute a primary historical source such as exists for no other part of the ancient world.”
... pessimus omnium poeta, quanto tu optimus omnium patronus. Would you not say that Catullus was bound to have looked upon Cicero the man as a pompous ass, however sincerely he may have admired Cicero the man of letters? I am not sure how his contemporaries regarded Cicero—were they not hypnotised by his eloquence, scholarship, literary versatility, conversational and epistolatory powers, overflowing... One would think that men like Catullus and Caesar would see through him, though. There is certainly a note that sounds very like irony in the last three lines, but it is very subtle and others than Cicero may have regarded it as a graceful eulogy enhanced by the assumption of extreme humility (though only a courteous assumption) in the comparison between the poeta and the patronus . Virgil, S ...
... suddenly he began parading up and down the aisle, swearing like a longshore- man and throwing movable objects on the floor, finally pitching an inkwell which landed accurately on a plaster bust of Cicero. Replacing Eddie in his seat. Father Flanagan apologized: * “It was my fault. I never told him he mustn’t throw inkwells. The laws of Boys Town will, of course ...
... meaning and power. Rhetoric is a word with which we can batter something we do not like; but rhetoric of one kind or another has been always a great part of the world's best literature; Demosthenes, Cicero, Bossuet and Burke are rhetoricians, but their work ranks with the greatest prose styles that have been left to us. In poetry the accusation of rhetoric might be brought against such lines as Keats' ...
... passivity or uniformity of mind, together with an absence of physical agitation, which has the appearance of peace but is really a state of death in disguise. For, there can be no peace that contradicts Cicero 's definition: "liberty in tranquillity." Even the peace that can prevail among free peoples may not yet be a living one in the true sense of the word : it may be merely a temporary lull in which ...
... Hyrcanians it is the custom to let dogs (and among the Bactrians birds) devour the bodies of the deceased (cf. Plutarch's Moralia 499: Porphyry, De ab-stinentia 4,21; Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyposes 3,227; Cicero, Tusc. Disp. 1,45 & 108). In this case there would be no connection with the Namazga V culture. 210.Griffith, op. cit., pp. 467, col. 2 and 469. col. 2. 211.P. 219, fn. 186 continued from ...
... which Paul preached) would think of a proclaimed Saviour nailed to the cross. William Barclay 227 reminds us of the Graeco-Roman world's view of crucifixion: "The most cruel and the vilest punishment, Cicero called it (Verrines 5.66); the ultimate penalty, Apullius called it (The Golden Ass 10); the penalty of slaves it was commonly called (Tacitus, Histories 4.11; Juvenal 6.218; Horace, Satires ...
... meaning and power. Rhetoric is a word with which we can batter something we do not like; but rhetoric of one kind or another has been always a great part of the world's best literature; Demosthenes, Cicero, Bossuet and Burke are rhetoricians, but their work ranks with the greatest prose styles that have been left to us. In poetry the accusation of rhetoric might be brought against such lines as Keats's ...
... writer touched became a thing of beauty—no matter Page 364 what its substance—or a perfect form and memorable. Bankim seemed to me to have achieved that in his own way as Plato in his or Cicero or Tacitus in theirs or in French literature, Voltaire, Flaubert or Anatole France. I could name others, but especially in French which is the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's ...
... friends." He endeared himself to his soldiers by his kindliness; he risked Page 86 their lives, but not heedlessly; and he seemed to feel all their wounds. As Caesar forgave Brutus and Cicero, and Napoleon Fouche and Talleyrand, so Alexander forgave Harpalus, the treasurer who had absconded with his funds and had returned to beg forgiveness; the young conqueror reappointed him treasurer ...
... could legislate and fight, they could keep the state together, but they made the Greeks think for them. Of course the Greeks could fight also but not always so well. Take the Roman thinkers—Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, all owe their philosophy to the Greeks. That, again, is an illustration of what I was saying about the inrush of forces. Consider a small race like the Greeks, living on a small projecting ...
... that whatever the writer touched became a thing of beauty —no matter what its substance —or a perfect form and memorable. Bankim seemed to me to have achieved that in his own way as Plato in his or Cicero or Tacitus in theirs or in French Literature Voltaire, Flaubert or Anatole France. I could name many more, especially in French which is the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's la ...
... of its literature remains derivative and second-hand in its every fibre. We get to the heart of Roman life and character in Roman Satires, the annalistic histories of Livy & Tacitus, the Letters of Cicero or Pliny, but in the more splendid & ambitious portions of Latin literature we get only the half Greek dress in which the Roman mind learned to disguise itself. Let us suppose that all historical documents ...
... acquainted with Palestine." (See the commentary on e.g. 5:1; 6:45; 7:2-4; 7:31; 8:22; 10:1; 11:1.) Nineham 38 ends on the note that certainty with regard * Cf. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Brutus, Marcus Aurelius, Mark Antony, etc., etc. ** See H. J. Cadbury, The Making of Luke-Acts, pp. 85ff, who rightly points out how largely second-century statements about the ...
... the day and develop the “natural philosophy” we call science. There was also a third component in the Renaissance movement, the “emotional”. In Thucydides, Demosthenes and Pericles, as in Caesar, Cicero and Tacitus, the Renaissance men rediscovered the pride and glory of belonging, of patriotism, of “the general weal”, of the heartening inspiration of tradition and the past of the body of which every ...
... so that whatever the writer touched became a thing of beauty—no matter what its substance—or a perfect form and memorable. Bankim seemed to me to have achieved that in his own way as Plato in his or Cicero or Tacitus in theirs or in French literature, Voltaire, Flaubert or Anatole France. I could name others, especially in French which is the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's lang ...
... (Henry VIII, Benvenuto Cellini, Baudelaire), and sufferers from tuberculosis can be listed with out end — Voltaire, Kant, Keats, Dostoevsky, Moliere, Schiller, Descartes, Cardinal Manning, Spinoza, Cicero, St. Francis. But in the realm of physical deformity names are not so numerous. Several celebrated writers were eunuches or eunuchoid. Peter Stuyvesant lost a leg and buried it in the West Indies, ...
... high-pitched voices they had and how graceful in movement! How was it possible to combine in a single voice such power and strength with so much sweetness! I had read about the orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, heard the eulogies of France's Mirabeau and Danton, of Burke and Gladstone of England. But it was truly an experience to have heard with one's own ears a human voice of their calibre. One cannot do ...
... purification. "One day, during a fever, he dreamed that, at the Last Judgment, Christ asked him who he was, and he replied that he was a Christian. The answer came : 'Thou liest, thou art a follower of Cicero and not of Christ’ Thereupon he was ordered to be scourged. At length Jerome in his dream cried out: 'Lord, if ever again I possess worldly books, or if ever again I read such, I have denied Thee.’ ...
... The Roman could fight and legislate, he could keep the states together, but he made the Greek think for him. Of course, the Greeks also could fight but not always so well. The Roman thinkers, Cicero, Seneca, Horace, all owe their philosophy to the Greeks. That, again, is another illustration of what I was speaking of as the inrush of forces. Consider a small race like the Greeks living on ...
... (Hindu Saying) *** Man is often preoccupied with human rules and forgets the inner law. (Antoine the Healer ) *** Let not the talk of the vulgar make any impression on you. (Cicero) *** The sage is never alone: he bears within himself the Lord of all things. *** Do not believe all that men say; but blush not to submit to the sage who knows more than you. ...
... Mysteries, however, were so strictly guarded, complete silence being enjoined on penalty of death, that we know practically nothing about them. Most of the great men of Greece and later many Romans like Cicero, were initiates, and some of them have spoken about the inner peace and realisation they experienced when participating in the rituals of these mysteries. We have stray remarks about them, like Cicero's ...
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