Selected Orations and Letters; With Historical Introduction, an Outline of the Roman Constitution, Notes, Excursuses, Vocabulary, and Index by Harold W. Johnston
Selected Orations and Letters; With Historical Introduction, an Outline of the Roman Constitution, Notes, Excursuses, Vocabulary, and Index by Harold W. Johnston
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...are named in Sallust's account of the Conspiracy. Among them were ten senators, four knights, and many from places in Italy outside of Rome. 12. arbitraris. In the present indicative of deponent verbs, Cicero writes-ris not-re. What does he write in the future tense? cf. 1. 1. 2. 13,14. immo vero is used to correct a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...are named in Sallust's account of the Conspiracy. Among them were ten senators, four knights, and many from places in Italy outside of Rome. 12. arbitraris. In the present indicative of deponent verbs, Cicero writes-ris not-re. What does he write in the future tense? cf. 1. 1. 2. 13,14. immo vero is used to correct a previous statement as either too weak or too strong: which here? Trans. "Lives, did I say? nay, he even, etc." publici consilii, 'a council of the state, ' here the senate. The word consilium is used of any organized body taking common action. 16. viri fortes, nom. case, ironical. publicae videmur, si istius furorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci iussu consulis iam pridem oportebat, in te conferri pestem, quam tu in nos 19 machinaris. An vero vir amplissumus, P. Scipio, 3 pontifex maximus, Ti. Gracchum mediocriter labefactantem statum rei publicae privatus interfecit; Catilinam orbem terrae caede atque incendiis vastare cupientem nos consules perferemus? Nam ilia nimis antiqua praetereo, quod C. Servilius Ahala Sp. Mae-25 Hum novis rebus studentem manu sua occidit. Fuit, fuit ista quondam in hac re publica virtus, ut viri fortes acrioribus suppliciis civem perniciosum quam 17. istius = Catilinae. This is the demonstrative used most frequently of one's opponent in court, dehate, etc., and thus it often has a certain contemptuous force. 3. 20. An really introduces the second part of a double direct question, of which in excited speech the first part is often omitted, as here. In translation the omitted part may be supplied from the context: "Am J wrong, or did, etc.," or the an may be faintly represented by 'then.' an vero, the words go with both interfecit and perferemus. 21. P. Scipio Nasica was at...
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