Tusculan Disputations: Book First. The Dream of Scipio, and Extracts from the Dialogues on Old Age and FriendshipEldredge & brother, 1879 |
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ablative according accusative adopted animi animus Archimedes best MSS book Brutus caelum case Cicero Cicero's Cineas cites clause construction consul death denote Deor deus Dicaearchus Disp edition editors read ellipsis Empedocles Ennius esset Euripides expression F. A. Wolf first following force form found future given good great Greek Hand's Tursellinus Hecuba idea igitur imperfect indicative infinitive Klotz Kühner Laelius language Latin life lines Macrobius made mind mors mortem Moser natura neque nihil Nobbe note omnibus Orat Orelli particle passage philosopher philosophy place Plato Plautus possit potest preceding present Price pronoun proposition Pythagoras quum reading reason regard relative same says Scil Scipio second See supra sentence sentiment signification similar Simonides sine Smith's Socrates Somnium Scipionis soul speaker state subject subjunctive tamen things thought time Tischer Tregder Tusc Tusculan Disputations used verb vita vitae whole word words years καὶ τὸ
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Page 219 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 205 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, — So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore "Where tempests never beat, nor billows roar;" And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 216 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear...
Page xv - If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice 'believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered 'I have felt.
Page 55 - Ita, quicquid est illud, quod sentit, quod sapit, quod vivit, quod viget, caeleste et divinum ob eamque rem aeternum sit necesse est.
Page 95 - Sed quo sis, Africane, alacrior ad tutandam 5 rem publicam, sic habeto : omnibus qui patriam conservaverint adiuverint auxerint certum esse in caelo definitum locum, ubi beati aevo sempiterno fruantur. Nihil est enim illi principi deo qui omnem mundum regit, quod quidem in terris fiat, acceptius quam concilia coetusque hominum iure sociati, quae civitates appellantur. Harum rectores et conservatores hinc profecti huc revertuntur.
Page 205 - Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he, That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...
Page 95 - ... naturali summam tibi fatalem confecerint: in te unum atque in tuum nomen se tota convertet civitas; te senatus, te omnes boni, te socii, te Latini intuebuntur; tu eris unus, in quo nitatur civitatis salus; ac, ne multa, dictator rem publicam constituas oportet , si impias propinquorum manus effugeris...
Page 215 - Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ! There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st...
Page 96 - Nisi en im deus is, cujus hoc templum est omne quod conspicis, istis te corporis custodiis liberaverit, hue tibi aditus patere non potest. Homines enim sunt hac lege generati, qui tuerentur illum globum, quem in hoc templo medium vides, quae terra dicitur; hisque animus datus est ex illis sempiternis ignibus, quae sidera et stellas vocatis, quae, globosae et rotundae, divinis animatae mentibus, circuios suos orbesque conficiunt celeritate mirabili.