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... Pompey , for his affront to their city and temple , were zealously attached to Cæsar , and , above all the other foreigners in Rome , distinguished them- selves , by the expressions of their grief for his death ,; so as to spend whole ...
... Pompey , for his affront to their city and temple , were zealously attached to Cæsar , and , above all the other foreigners in Rome , distinguished them- selves , by the expressions of their grief for his death ,; so as to spend whole ...
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... Pompey , his * Quid ? Apollinarium ludorum plausus , vel testimonia potius , & judicia populi Romani parum magna videbantur ? O beatos illos , qui cum adesse ipsis propter vim armorum non licebat , ade . rant tamen , & in medullis ...
... Pompey , his * Quid ? Apollinarium ludorum plausus , vel testimonia potius , & judicia populi Romani parum magna videbantur ? O beatos illos , qui cum adesse ipsis propter vim armorum non licebat , ade . rant tamen , & in medullis ...
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... Pompey was now " master of seven legions ; that as he had just storm- " ed a town called Borea , he received the news of " Cæsar's death ; which caused a wonderful joy , and 66 change of affairs through the province of Spain , " and a ...
... Pompey was now " master of seven legions ; that as he had just storm- " ed a town called Borea , he received the news of " Cæsar's death ; which caused a wonderful joy , and 66 change of affairs through the province of Spain , " and a ...
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... Pompey , and " that , on condi- " tion of laying down his arms , and quitting the pro- 66 vince , he should be ... Pompey's estates had been confiscated , it was decreed , that the same sum , for which they had been sold , should be ...
... Pompey , and " that , on condi- " tion of laying down his arms , and quitting the pro- 66 vince , he should be ... Pompey's estates had been confiscated , it was decreed , that the same sum , for which they had been sold , should be ...
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... Pompey * . " For which reason he proposed the following decree- " Whereas the re- " public has often been well and happily administer- * Ibid . 14 . *** A. Urb . 710. Cic . 64. Coss .--- C SECT . X. 124 CICERO . *** ...
... Pompey * . " For which reason he proposed the following decree- " Whereas the re- " public has often been well and happily administer- * Ibid . 14 . *** A. Urb . 710. Cic . 64. Coss .--- C SECT . X. 124 CICERO . *** ...
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Page 371 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government.
Page 265 - Caesar any new power, but to apply that which he had acquired by his own vigour to the public service and the ruin of Antony ; in which he succeeded even beyond expectation, and would certainly have gained his end, had he not been prevented by accidents which could not be foreseen.
Page 337 - Disertissime Romuli nepotum, quot sunt quotque fuere, Marce Tulli, quotque post aliis erunt in annis, gratias tibi maximas Catullus agit pessimus omnium poeta, tanto pessimus omnium poeta, quanto tu optimus omnium patronus.
Page 328 - His industry was incredible, beyond the example or even conception of our days : this was the secret by which he performed such wonders, and reconciled perpetual study with perpetual affairs. He suffered no part of his leisure to be idle, or the least interval of it to be lost.
Page 111 - Cicero had resolved not to appear there any more, till he should be supported by the new consuls ; but happening to receive the day before the edict of D. Brutus, by which he prohibited Antony the entrance of his province, and declared that he would defend it against him by force, and preserve it in its duty to the senate, he thought it necessary for the public service, and the present encouragement of Brutus, to procure, as soon as possible, some public declaration in his favour : he went, therefore,...
Page 297 - As soon as the soldiers appeared, the servants prepared themselves to fight, being resolved to defend their master's life at the hazard of their own: but Cicero commanded them to set him down, and to make no resistance...
Page 291 - ... might happen to himself, since his son was removed from all immediate danger by being already with Brutus. The old historians endeavour to persuade us that Caesar did not give him up to the revenge of his colleagues without the greatest reluctance, and after a struggle of two days to preserve him : but all that tenderness was artificial, and a part assumed, to give the better colour to his desertion of him : for Cicero's death was the natural effect of their union ; and a necessary sacrifice...
Page 50 - I undertook the care of the shews, which young " Caesar exhibited for the victory of his uncle : this " was an affair of private, not of public duty : it was " what I ought to have performed to the memory and " honour of my dead friend ; and what I could not " therefore deny to a youth of the greatest hopes, and
Page 15 - There were several things, however, very artfully proposed and carried by Antony, on the pretence of public concord, of which he afterwards made a most pernicious use ; particularly, a decree for the confirmation of all Caesar's acts...
Page 368 - be one law now, and another hereafter; but the same eternal immutable law comprehends all nations, at all times, under one common master and governor of all — GOD.