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  • This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.†   (source)
  • At the Campidoglio you'll step forward and, suddenly, Cicero.†   (source)
  • The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero.†   (source)
  • But now, as I moved on into Cicero and Virgil, I realized that I was leaving her behind.†   (source)
  • The teacher of Latin was a pale intense young man who had failed in divinity school and yet had enough education to teach the inevitable grammar, Caesar, Cicero.†   (source)
  • Today, Cicero is admired for both his oratory and his correspondence -- which influenced European correspondence during the Renaissance.
  • Trusting in the drinking at Cicero's to get him through the night.†   (source)
  • I allowed my aide to govern the Outback world while I drank at Cicero's and waited.†   (source)
  • Jesus Wept," muttered Martin Silenus Cicero's looked as if it had been invaded by barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • Through long afternoons, Adams helped the boy in translating Cicero.†   (source)
  • He was Paul Lazzaro, the polka-dotted car thief from Cicero, Illinois.†   (source)
  • To gather strength, he read aloud from Cicero's Orations.†   (source)
  • I saw that though Herb knew nothing about Cicero or Shakespeare his wisdom was far larger than mine.†   (source)
  • As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates "called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil."†   (source)
  • For as he progressed through the third essay (in which Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero had been crowded onto the couch with the Emperor Maximilian), the Count could hear every tick.†   (source)
  • Unlike most things in Keats, on Hyperion, Cicero's was not named after some piece of pre-Hegira literary trivia.†   (source)
  • The darkness of the balcony was relieved only by dim, reflected light from deeper within Cicero's and by the lanterns on passing river barges.†   (source)
  • The only consistent elements of decor at Cicero's over the decades were the low ceilings, thick smoke, and constant background babble which offered a sense of privacy in the midst of bustle.†   (source)
  • The heavy air of Cicero's, which once had been filled with the blended scent of broiling steaks, wine, stim, ale, and T-free tobacco, was now laden with the overlapping smells of unwashed bodies, urine, and hopelessness.†   (source)
  • Sitting on the balcony at Cicero's, it was all too easy to fall back into the rhythms of a former life; he would drink until the early morning hours, watch the predawn meteor showers as the clouds cleared, and then stagger to his empty apartment near the market, going into the consulate four hours later showered, shaved, and seemingly human except for the blood in his eyes and the insane ache in his skull.†   (source)
  • For years Alessandro had been reading Cicero and English parliamentary debates, with no outlet for his oratory except impatient fellow students who did not appreciate the worth of the great cadences Alessandro now had by heart.†   (source)
  • On hearing that John Quincy's course of studies did not include Cicero and Demosthenes, Adams could hardly contain his indignation.†   (source)
  • Were Cicero to return to earth, he would see that the English nation had brought "the great idea" nearly to perfection.†   (source)
  • "The first way for a young man to set himself on the road towards glorious reputation," he read in Cicero, "is to win renown."†   (source)
  • The "sweetness and grandeur" of just the sounds of Cicero were sufficient reward, even if one understood none of the meaning.†   (source)
  • Adams was so shaken, he had to leave the room and take up his Cicero again in order to compose himself.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, he was desperate for books to be sent—Hume, Johnson, Priestley, Livy, Tacitus, Cicero, "and a Plutarch in French or English."†   (source)
  • He wrote of his renewed enjoyment of Shakespeare—Adams would read Shakespeare twice through again in 1805—and in his continued devotion to Cicero and the Bible.†   (source)
  • A small textbook edition of Cicero's Orations became one of his earliest, proudest possessions, as he affirmed with the note "John Adams Book 1749/50" written a half dozen times on the title page.†   (source)
  • Having run on for several pages about Cicero, Socrates, and the contradictions in Plato, Jefferson asked, "But why am I dosing you with these antediluvian topics?†   (source)
  • Or, for that matter, Cicero.†   (source)
  • In all history, he declared, there was no greater statesman and philosopher than Cicero, whose authority should ever carry great weight, and Cicero's decided opinion in favor of the three branches of government was founded on a reason that was timeless, unchangeable.†   (source)
  • He had read Cicero's essay on growing old gracefully, De Senectute, for seventy years, to the point of nearly knowing it by heart, but never had it given such joy as on his most recent reading, he told another correspondent.†   (source)
  • In mid-August, the eleven-year-old boy sailed on the South Carolina, which, after a troubled voyage, put in at La Coruna, Spain, where eventually he sailed on another American ship, Cicero, a privateer, and after more delays and adventures reached home at the end of January 1782, more than five months after leaving Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Jonathan Sewall had already concluded that Adams was destined for greatness, telling him, only partly in jest, that "in future ages, when New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome."†   (source)
  • He has translated Virgil's Aeneid …. the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola …. a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries …. besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations…… In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet he has studiedmorsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.†   (source)
  • Grammar, rhetoric, and English literature were heavily emphasized, and the course included two years of German, three years of French, and four years of Latin, at the end of which we were expected to have read Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, and Livy.†   (source)
  • Cicero.†   (source)
  • It galled me that my mother should be married to a man with so little schooling, a man who licked the point of his lead pencilwhen struggling with the simplest mathematical calculation, a man who had never heard of Cicero, Virgil, or Shakespeare, a man who read nothing but the sports pages and moved his lips silently while trying to puzzle out some unfamiliar word in the baseball news.†   (source)
  • They spent a weary age, two years, on that dull dog, Cicero.†   (source)
  • Let them say rather that they blast better specimens, but not try to put it over that the only human beings who live by blood are away down on the Orinoco where they hunt heads, or out in Cicero with Al Capone.†   (source)
  • — Isn't that Cicero the worst thing?†   (source)
  • The library of St. Piquier, as early as the ninth century, had 256 volumes, including Virgil, Cicero, Terence and Macrobius.†   (source)
  • Dr. Jung points out that he has borrowed his term archetype from classic sources: Cicero, Pliny, the Corpus Hermeticum, Augustine, etc. Bastian notes the correspondence of his own theory of "Elementary Ideas" with the Stoic concept of the Logoi spermatikoi.†   (source)
  • He was almost as great a bore as Cicero— that windy old moralist who came out so boldly in favor of Old Age and Friendship.†   (source)
  • There were Persian screens and Invalides horsehair helmets, busts of Pericles and Cicero and Athena, and who-else-not.†   (source)
  • When this universal dissolution is concluded, the formation of a new universe begins (Cicero's renovatio), and all things repeat themselves, every divinity, every person, playing again his former part.†   (source)
  • Soon as they've passed their last examinations in Solid Geometry and Cicero's Orations, looks like they suddenly feel themselves fit to get married— It's early morning again.†   (source)
  • In his snap-brim detective's felt and large-toed shoes, carrying accounts and a copy of the Tribune for the Gumps, the sports results, and the stock quotations--he was speculating--and also for the gangwar news, keeping up with what was happening around Colossimo and Capone in Cicero and the North Side O'Bannions, that being about the time when O'Bannion was knocked off among his flowers by somebody who kept his gun-hand in a friendly grip--with this, Coblin got on the Ashland car.†   (source)
  • In addition, he memorized some of the sonorous stupidities of Cicero, because of the sound, and a little of Caesar, terse and lean.†   (source)
  • Harder than Cicero?†   (source)
  • Fex urbis, exclaims Cicero; mob, adds Burke, indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace.†   (source)
  • Cicero could not have retired with more gravity from a night-long senatorial debate.†   (source)
  • Cicero was severe towards Caesar, and he was right.†   (source)
  • Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus is an arbiter by the sword.†   (source)
  • But Zoilus and Cicero are two different persons.†   (source)
  • In the living-room, in a corner of the davenport, Ted settled down to his Home Study; plain geometry, Cicero, and the agonizing metaphors of Comus.†   (source)
  • But as it was, I should have as soon thought of turning my pale plaster-of-paris bust of Cicero out of doors.†   (source)
  • Cicero would have plugged his ears and sent me to the scullery, but somehow I managed to pull through.†   (source)
  • Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke,[18] which Bacon,[19] have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.†   (source)
  • "I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here," she said, seating herself comfortably, throwing back her wraps, and showing a thin but well-built figure.†   (source)
  • He took an interest in me, and it is to him that I to-day owe it that I am a veritable man of letters, who knows Latin from the ~de Officiis~ of Cicero to the mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, and a barbarian neither in scholastics, nor in politics, nor in rhythmics, that sophism of sophisms.†   (source)
  • When the Lawrences stopped, I knew that the doubts of the old folks about book-learning had conquered again, and so, toiling up the hill, and getting as far into the cabin as possible, I put Cicero "pro Archia Poeta" into the simplest English with local applications, and usually convinced them—for a week or so.†   (source)
  • Cicero, when he buried his darling and only daughter, had a heart as full of honest grief as poor Tom's,—perhaps no fuller, for both were only men;—but Cicero could pause over no such sublime words of hope, and look to no such future reunion; and if he had seen them, ten to one he would not have believed,—he must fill his head first with a thousand questions of authenticity of manuscript, and correctness of translation.†   (source)
  • Cicero, who declaimed so vehemently at the notion of crucifying a Roman citizen, had not a word to say against these horrible abuses of victory.†   (source)
  • He did not look at me while I spoke, but kept his glance fixed upon my bust of Cicero, which as I then sat, was directly behind me, some six inches above my head.†   (source)
  • Consul Cicero! this is no calamity from which one extricates one's self with periphrases, ~quemadmodum~, and ~verum enim vero~!"†   (source)
  • And there were candelabra quaint and curious, and statuary and vases; the whole making an interior that would have befitted well the house on the Palatine Hill which Cicero bought of Crassus, or that other, yet more famous for extravagance, the Tusculan villa of Scaurus.†   (source)
  • He admires Cicero who blames Catiline.†   (source)
  • My friend," and he turned towards the blind man, "I sold my last shirt last week; that is to say, since you understand only the language of Cicero: ~Vendidi hebdomade nuper transita meam ultimam chemisan~."†   (source)
  • Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against Cicero,—that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,—that is insurrection.†   (source)
  • I ask you, Messer Cicero, and Messer Seneca, copies of whom, all dog's-eared, I behold scattered on the floor, what profits it me to know, better than any governor of the mint, or any Jew on the Pont aux Changeurs, that a golden crown stamped with a crown is worth thirty-five unzains of twenty-five sous, and eight deniers parisis apiece, and that a crown stamped with a crescent is worth thirty-six unzains of twenty-six sous, six deniers tournois apiece, if I have not a single wretched…†   (source)
  • Another from Cicero, "O vitae Philosophia dux!†   (source)
  • Mr Burd points out that this passage is imitated directly from Cicero's "De Officiis": "Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum; confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore."†   (source)
  • —A recently discovered fragment of Cicero, professor MacHugh answered with pomp of tone.†   (source)
  • Cicero, Podmore.†   (source)
  • I slept never on the mount of Parnasso, Nor learned Marcus Tullius Cicero.†   (source)
  • Enter, from opposite sides, CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO.†   (source)
  • Cicero is dead, And by that order of proscription.†   (source)
  • Did Cicero say any thing?†   (source)
  • "Oh! here is Cicero," said Candide.†   (source)
  • This Raphael, who from his family carries the name of Hythloday, is not ignorant of the Latin tongue, but is eminently learned in the Greek, having applied himself more particularly to that than to the former, because he had given himself much to philosophy, in which he knew that the Romans have left us nothing that is valuable, except what is to be found in Seneca and Cicero.†   (source)
  • Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.†   (source)
  • "Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world."†   (source)
  • As Garrick, whom I regard in tragedy to be the greatest genius the world hath ever produced, sometimes condescends to play the fool; so did Scipio the Great, and Laelius the Wise, according to Horace, many years ago; nay, Cicero reports them to have been "incredibly childish."†   (source)
  • For it is most true that Cicero sayth of them somewhere; that there can be nothing so absurd, but may be found in the books of Philosophers.†   (source)
  • …as, if I mistake not, this book of yours has no need of any one of those things you say it wants, for it is, from beginning to end, an attack upon the books of chivalry, of which Aristotle never dreamt, nor St. Basil said a word, nor Cicero had any knowledge; nor do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within the range of its fanciful vagaries; nor have geometrical measurements or refutations of the arguments used in rhetoric anything to do with it; nor…†   (source)
  • And Cicero sayes, there was never any such Punishment ordained in the City of Rome; but cals it a refuge of men in danger.†   (source)
  • Kingdoms and states, as Tully Cicero says in his epistles, undergo alterations, and so must the human form.†   (source)
  • WHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY TERMINATION Many and great were the attentions shown to Don Quixote by the newly married couple, who felt themselves under an obligation to him for coming forward in defence of their cause; and they exalted his wisdom to the same level with his courage, rating him as a Cid in arms, and a Cicero in eloquence.†   (source)
  • Certain it is, they sunk deeper into his lordship than anything which Demosthenes or Cicero could have said on the occasion.†   (source)
  • To conclude there is nothing so absurd, that the old Philosophers (as Cicero saith, who was one of them) have not some of them maintained.†   (source)
  • But that is not it I intend to speak of here; my designe being not to shew what is Law here, and there; but what is Law; as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and divers others have done, without taking upon them the profession of the study of the Law.†   (source)
  • I would not here be understood to insist on the same fund of learning in any of my brethren, as Cicero persuades us is necessary to the composition of an orator.†   (source)
  • There in our letters do not well agree: Mine speak of seventy Senators that died By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.†   (source)
  • [Enter, in procession, with music, Caesar; Antony, for the course; Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Casca; a great crowd following, among them a Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • Plato himself concludes his Phaedon with declaring that his best arguments amount only to raise a probability; and Cicero himself seems rather to profess an inclination to believe, than any actual belief in the doctrines of immortality.†   (source)
  • For words are wise mens counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the mony of fooles, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other Doctor whatsoever, if but a man.†   (source)
  • In like manner are the antients, such as Homer, Virgil, Horace, Cicero, and the rest, to be esteemed among us writers, as so many wealthy squires, from whom we, the poor of Parnassus, claim an immemorial custom of taking whatever we can come at.†   (source)
  • —But, look you, Cassius, The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow, And all the rest look like a chidden train: Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes As we have seen him in the Capitol, Being cross'd in conference by some senators.†   (source)
  • And as Aristotle; so Cicero, and other Writers have grounded their Civill doctrine, on the opinions of the Romans, who were taught to hate Monarchy, at first, by them that having deposed their Soveraign, shared amongst them the Soveraignty of Rome; and afterwards by their Successors.†   (source)
  • O Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks; and I have seen Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with the threatening clouds: But never till tonight, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.†   (source)
  • Nor do I believe that all the imagination, fire, and judgment of Pitt, could have produced those orations that have made the senate of England, in these our times, a rival in eloquence to Greece and Rome, if he had not been so well read in the writings of Demosthenes and Cicero, as to have transferred their whole spirit into his speeches, and, with their spirit, their knowledge too.†   (source)
  • …a Person, is the same that an Actor is, both on the Stage and in common Conversation; and to Personate, is to Act, or Represent himselfe, or an other; and he that acteth another, is said to beare his Person, or act in his name; (in which sence Cicero useth it where he saies, "Unus Sustineo Tres Personas; Mei, Adversarii, & Judicis, I beare three Persons; my own, my Adversaries, and the Judges;") and is called in diverse occasions, diversly; as a Representer, or Representative, a…†   (source)
  • The lady had already changed colour two or three times; had got up from the bed and sat down again, while Jones was wishing the ground to sink under him, or the house to fall on his head, when an odd accident freed him from an embarrassment out of which neither the eloquence of a Cicero, nor the politics of a Machiavel, could have delivered him, without utter disgrace.†   (source)
  • Farewell, Cicero.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XLVII OF THE BENEFIT THAT PROCEEDETH FROM SUCH DARKNESSE, AND TO WHOM IT ACCREWETH He That Receiveth Benefit By A Fact, Is Presumed To Be The Author Cicero maketh honorable mention of one of the Cassii, a severe Judge amongst the Romans, for a custome he had, in Criminal causes, (when the testimony of the witnesses was not sufficient,) to ask the Accusers, Cui Bono; that is to say, what Profit, Honor, or other Contentment, the accused obtained, or expected by the Fact.†   (source)
  • ] CICERO.†   (source)
  • Which is so evident, that even Cicero, (a passionate defender of Liberty,) in a publique pleading, attributeth all Propriety to the Law Civil, "Let the Civill Law," saith he, "be once abandoned, or but negligently guarded, (not to say oppressed,) and there is nothing, that any man can be sure to receive from his Ancestor, or leave to his Children."†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding the sentiment of the Roman satirist, which denies the divinity of fortune, and the opinion of Seneca to the same purpose; Cicero, who was, I believe, a wiser man than either of them, expressly holds the contrary; and certain it is, there are some incidents in life so very strange and unaccountable, that it seems to require more than human skill and foresight in producing them.†   (source)
  • I shall onely adde this, that the Writings of Schoole-Divines, are nothing else for the most part, but insignificant Traines of strange and barbarous words, or words otherwise used, then in the common use of the Latine tongue; such as would pose Cicero, and Varro, and all the Grammarians of ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • CICERO.†   (source)
  • For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.†   (source)
  • In these westerne parts of the world, we are made to receive our opinions concerning the Institution, and Rights of Common-wealths, from Aristotle, Cicero, and other men, Greeks and Romanes, that living under Popular States, derived those Rights, not from the Principles of Nature, but transcribed them into their books, out of the Practice of their own Common-wealths, which were Popular; as the Grammarians describe the Rules of Language, out of the Practise of the time; or the Rules of…†   (source)
  • But what of Cicero?†   (source)
  • CICERO.†   (source)
  • Laws Over The Conscience There is another Errour in their Civill Philosophy (which they never learned of Aristotle, nor Cicero, nor any other of the Heathen,) to extend the power of the Law, which is the Rule of Actions onely, to the very Thoughts, and Consciences of men, by Examination, and Inquisition of what they Hold, notwithstanding the Conformity of their Speech and Actions: By which, men are either punished for answering the truth of their thoughts, or constrained to answer an…†   (source)
  • Cicero one!†   (source)
  • CICERO.†   (source)
  • [Exit Cicero.†   (source)
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