Tusculan Disputations: Book First; The Dream of Scipio; and Extracts from the Dialogues on Old Age and Friendship with English NotesBartlett, 1856 - 208 pages |
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ablative according adopted Africanus animi animus Archimedes Aristoteles best MSS Brutus caelum case Cato Cicero Cicero's Cineas cites clause construction consul cujus death Deor deus Dicaearchus edition editors read ellipsis Empedocles Ennius esset Euripides expressed expression F. A. Wolf first force form found future given great Greek Hand's Tursel Hand's Tursellinus Hecuba idea igitur imperfect indicative ipsum ista Klotz Kühner Laelius Latin lines Macrobius made malum mihi mind mors mortem Moser natura neque nihil Nobbe note omnibus Orat Orelli particle passage philosopher philosophy place Plato Plautus posset potest pronoun proposition Pythagoras quum reading reason regard relative same says Scil Scipio second See supra sentence sentiment signification similar Simonides sine Socrates Somnium Scipionis soul speaker state subject subjunctive tamen things thought time Tischer Tregder Tusc Tusculan Disputations used verb vita vitae whole word words writers years καὶ τὸ
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Page 179 - Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost; And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course." 119. Ego vero. " The particle vero, added particularly to pronouns, has a strongly affirmative or declaratory force. Cf. supra, xi. 24: Me vero delectat. xi. 25 : M.
Page 193 - 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 190 - 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 189 - angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims ; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
Page xv - hoc mihi Latinis litteris illustrandum putavi; non quia philosophia Graecis et litteris et doctoribus percipi non posset, sed meum semper judicium fuit, omnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Graecos, aut accepta ab illis fecisse meliora, quae quidem digna statuissent in quibus elaborarent. 2. Nam mores et instituta vitae resque
Page 82 - a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore. Nee enim, dum eram vobiscum, animum meum videbatis: sed eum esse in hoc corpore ex Us rebus, quas gerebam, intelligebatis. Eundemigitur esse creditote, etiam si nullum videbitis. Nee vero clarorum virorum post mortem honores permanerent, si nihil eorum ipsorum animi efficerent, quo diutius memoriam sui teneremus. Mihi quidem nunquam
Page 20 - Nam principium exstinctum nee ipsum ab alio renascetur, nee ex se aliud creabit, siquidem necesse est a principio oriri omnia. Ita fit, ut motus principium ex eo sit, quod ipsum a se movetur. Id autem nee nasci potest, nee mori: vel concidat omne caelum, omnisque natura consistat necesse est, nee vim ullam nanciscatur, qua
Page 77 - unquam. Nam principium exstinctum nee ipsum ab alio renascetur, nee ex se aliud creabit: siquidem necesse est a principio oriri omnia. Ita fit, ut motus principium ex eo sit, quod ipsum a se movetur: id autem nee nasci potest, nee mori: vel concidat omne caelum, omnisque natura consistat necesse est, nee vim ullam nanciscatur, quae a primo
Page 89 - ante tempus; iterum sibi suo tempore, rei publicae paene sero; qui, duabus urbibus eversis inimicissimis huic imperio, non modo praesentia, verum etiam futura bella delevit. Q,uid dicam de moribus facillimis ? de pietate in matrem ? liberalitate in sorores ? bonitate in suos ? justitia in omnes ? Nota sunt vobis. Quam autem civitati carus fuerit, maerore funeris
Page 83 - esse creditote, etiam si nullum videbitis. Nee vero clarorum virorum post mortem honores permanerent, si nihil eorum ipsorum animi efficerent, quo diutius memoriam sui teneremus. Mihi quidem nunquam persuader! potuit, animos, dum in corporibus essent mortalibus, vivere; quum exissent ex iis, emori: nee vero, turn animum esse insipientem, quum ex