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... Cicero : " Vir summo splendore , summâ gratiâ ; nullo prorsùs plùs Homine delector . " DAC . 18 When the poets intended to sing any thing extraordinary , they used to change the strings of their ' vres . DAC . However , this changing ...
... Cicero : " Vir summo splendore , summâ gratiâ ; nullo prorsùs plùs Homine delector . " DAC . 18 When the poets intended to sing any thing extraordinary , they used to change the strings of their ' vres . DAC . However , this changing ...
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... Cicero , the son of the orator and then Consul Suffectus ; and that this is one of the earliest lyric compositions of Horace is probable , as well from its subject as by the irregularity of its composition , such as the synalephe in v ...
... Cicero , the son of the orator and then Consul Suffectus ; and that this is one of the earliest lyric compositions of Horace is probable , as well from its subject as by the irregularity of its composition , such as the synalephe in v ...
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... Cicero says of Ulysses , so powerful is the love of our country , that this wisest of the Greeks preferred his Ithaca , fixed , like a nest , upon rocks , to the enjoyment of immortality . " Dac . 18 The poet here collects three facts ...
... Cicero says of Ulysses , so powerful is the love of our country , that this wisest of the Greeks preferred his Ithaca , fixed , like a nest , upon rocks , to the enjoyment of immortality . " Dac . 18 The poet here collects three facts ...
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... Cicero de Oratore . BENT . Lord Shaftesbury explains the sensus communis in Juvenal , that sense which regards the common good , the public welfare . A sense , according to the ingenious author , seldom found among the great . Raro enim ...
... Cicero de Oratore . BENT . Lord Shaftesbury explains the sensus communis in Juvenal , that sense which regards the common good , the public welfare . A sense , according to the ingenious author , seldom found among the great . Raro enim ...
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... Cicero and Quin- tilian , perurbanum and abunde salis . FRAN . 36 Minimo me provocat . We should understand pignore or pretio ; nor is there any instance in the Latin tongue of provocare minimo digito , as the commentators explain it ...
... Cicero and Quin- tilian , perurbanum and abunde salis . FRAN . 36 Minimo me provocat . We should understand pignore or pretio ; nor is there any instance in the Latin tongue of provocare minimo digito , as the commentators explain it ...
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