The Orations Translated by Duncan, the Offices by Cockman, and the Cato & Laelius by Melmoth ...Harper & bros., 1844 |
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Page 151 - Catiline was very desirous to see him taken off before he left Rome; upon which two knights of the company undertook to kill him the next morning in his bed, in an early visit, on pretence of business...
Page 273 - ... it is no time to throw away any of the helps which we have, but, by all means possible, to acquire more. The enemy is not on the banks of the Anio, which was thought so terrible in the Punic war, but in the city and the Forum. Good gods! (I cannot speak it without a sigh,) there are some enemies in the very sanc' Ibid. 28. » Ibid. 36. » Ibid. 37. tuary ; some, I say, even in the senate...
Page 51 - I shall omit the long recital of what followed, since it all relates to myself; and observe only, that young Caesar, by whom, if we will confess the truth, we subsist at this day, flowed from the source of my counsels. I decreed him no honours, Brutus, but what were due; none but what were necessary : for as soon as we began to recover any liberty, and before the virtue of D. Brutus had yet...
Page 196 - ... they ordered a new and larger statue of Jupiter to be made, and to be placed in a position contrary to that of the former image, with its face turned towards the east ; intimating, that if...
Page 59 - If we compare these two letters, we shall perceive in Cicero's an extensive view and true judgment of things, tempered with the greatest politeness and affection for his friend, and an unwillingness to disgust, where he thought it necessary even to blame. In Brutus's, a churlish and morose arrogance, claiming infinite honours to himself, yet allowing none to any...
Page 192 - Cicero says, of the great force of conscience ; for, not only his usual parts and eloquence, but his impudence too, in which he outdid all men, quite failed him ; so that he confessed his crime, to the surprise of the whole assembly. Then Vulturcius desired that the letter to Catiline, which Lentulus had sent by him, might be opened, where Lentulus again, though greatly disordered, acknowledged his hand and seal : it was written without any name, but to this effect : " You will know who I " am, from...
Page 184 - ... desperate of any in our memory, by me, your only leader and general, in my gown ; which I will manage so, that, as far as it is possible, not one even of the guilty shall...
Page 61 - In this situation they spent three days in a close conference to adjust the plan of their accommodation; the substance of which was, that the three should be invested jointly with supreme power, for the term of five years, with the title of triumvirs, for settling the state of the republic : that they...
Page 163 - Marcellus, the senate would ere now have risen up against me, and laid violent hands upon their consul, in this very temple; and justly too. But with regard to you, Catiline, their silence declares their approbation, their acquiescence amounts to a decree, and by saying nothing they proclaim their consent. Nor is this true of the senators alone, whose authority you affect to prize, while you make no account of their lives; but of these brave and worthy Roman knights...
Page 175 - Did they amid their revels and gaming affect no other pleasures than those of lewdness and feasting, however desperate their case must appear, it might still notwithstanding be borne with. But it is altogether insufferable, that the cowardly should pretend to plot against the brave, the foolish against the prudent, the drunken against the sober, the drowsy against the vigilant...