Excerpt from Eulogium on Marcus Aurelius A tues and good actions of the friend he had lost, and the prince whom death had snatched from the a world. It is a sage who praises a sage; but here a the sage is an orator. He addresses a people to whom a he appeals for the truth of what he asserts and ti who join their acclamations to the voice of the panegyrist. The varied emotions of the orator, which are interrupted, from time to time, and those of the citizens which are in unison with a his the words which he sometimes ...
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Excerpt from Eulogium on Marcus Aurelius A tues and good actions of the friend he had lost, and the prince whom death had snatched from the a world. It is a sage who praises a sage; but here a the sage is an orator. He addresses a people to whom a he appeals for the truth of what he asserts and ti who join their acclamations to the voice of the panegyrist. The varied emotions of the orator, which are interrupted, from time to time, and those of the citizens which are in unison with a his the words which he sometimes addresses to Conmonos the son and successor of Marcus a Aurelius, who is present at the ceremony, and a who already announces by the air with which he listens to the philosopher, that Marcus Aure lius is indeed no more the deputies of nations 1 who, one after another, present to his ashes the regrets and homage of three quarters of the world (2 the last words of Apollonius who ventures, in a his grief, to predict the tyranny with which Com modus threatens the universe in short Commo dus himself, who, tired of hearing praised, what a' he will never imitate shakes his spear in a terrible manner, and suddenly interrupts in the mouth a of the orator this Eulogium of virtue all these emotions form a moral drama, full of majesty and interest, fit to he represented before philosophers a and kings. A That nothing might be wanting to the success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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