Sallust, Florus, and Velleius PaterculusG. Bell, 1884 - 560 pages |
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... whole tenor of the passage , as well as the scope of the context , leaves no room to doubt the fact . The main objects of comparison , throughout the three first sections of this Prooemium , or introductory discourse , are not vice and ...
... whole tenor of the passage , as well as the scope of the context , leaves no room to doubt the fact . The main objects of comparison , throughout the three first sections of this Prooemium , or introductory discourse , are not vice and ...
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... whole matter , intreated , with downcast looks and suppliant voice , that " the Conscript Fathers would not too hastily believe anything against him ; " saying " that he was sprung from such a family , and had so ordered his life from ...
... whole matter , intreated , with downcast looks and suppliant voice , that " the Conscript Fathers would not too hastily believe anything against him ; " saying " that he was sprung from such a family , and had so ordered his life from ...
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... whole of the common people , from a desire of change , favoured the projects of Catiline . This they seemed to do in accordance with their general character ; for , in every state , they that are poor envy those of a better class , and ...
... whole of the common people , from a desire of change , favoured the projects of Catiline . This they seemed to do in accordance with their general character ; for , in every state , they that are poor envy those of a better class , and ...
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... whole affair , just as they had learned it , to Quintus Fabius Sanga3 , to whose patronage their state was very greatly indebted . Cicero , being apprised of the matter by Sanga , directed the deputies to pretend a strong desire for the ...
... whole affair , just as they had learned it , to Quintus Fabius Sanga3 , to whose patronage their state was very greatly indebted . Cicero , being apprised of the matter by Sanga , directed the deputies to pretend a strong desire for the ...
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... whole world knows the proceedings . Thus in the highest position there is the least liberty of action ; and it becomes us to indulge neither partiality nor aversion , but least of all animosity ; for what in others is called resentment ...
... whole world knows the proceedings . Thus in the highest position there is the least liberty of action ; and it becomes us to indulge neither partiality nor aversion , but least of all animosity ; for what in others is called resentment ...
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