The correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero: arranged according to its chronological order, Volume 4

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Hodges, Foster & Figgis ; Longmans, Green, 1894
 

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Page 270 - From the entrance into this unnatural war his natural cheerfulness and vivacity grew clouded, and a kind of sadness and dejection of spirit stole upon him which he had never been used to...
Page 270 - ... and affable to all men, that his face and countenance was always present and vacant to his company, and held any cloudiness and less pleasantness of the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable; and thence very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen.
Page 87 - ... victoriam diutius tenere, praeter unum L. Sullam quem imitaturus non sum. Haec nova sit ratio vincendi ut misericordia et liberalitate nos muniamus.
Page 270 - But after the King's return from Brentford, and the furious resolution of the two houses not to admit any treaty for peace, those indispositions...
Page 93 - Tarnen freti tua humanitate jo quod verissimum nobis videbitur de eo quod ad nos scripsisti tibi consilium dabimus. Quod si non fuerit prudens, at certe ab optima fide et óptimo animo proficiscetur. Nos si id quod nostro iudicio...
Page 87 - Pompeii in meam potestatem venerunt et a me missi sunt: si volent grati esse, debebunt Pompeium hortari, ut malit mihi esse amicus quam us, qui et illi et mihi semper fuerunt inimicissimi, quorum artificiis effectum est, ut res publica in hunc statum perveniret.
Page 306 - Sed veré laudari ille vir non potest, nisi haec ornata sint, quod ille ea, quae nunc sunt, et futura viderit et ne fièrent contenderit et facta ne videret vitam reliquerit: horum quid est, quod Aledio probare possimus?

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