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Page 215 - a little town, and I choose to live there, lest it should become still less. When I was in Rome, and other parts of Italy, I had not leisure to study the Latin tongue, on account of the public commissions with which I was charged, and the number of people that came to be instructed
Page 363 - and that she vexed and pricked it with a golden spindle till it seized her arm. Nothing of this, however, could be ascertained; for it was reported likewise that she carried about with her a certain poison in a hollow bodkin that she wore in her hair; yet there was neither any mark of poison
Page 30 - would have followed him immediately, but he wanted ships. He therefore returned to Rome, with the glory of having reduced Italy in sixty days, without spilling a drop of blood. Finding the city in a more settled condition than he expected^ and many senators there, he addressed them in a mild and gracious manner, and
Page 13 - answered with great seriousness, " I assure you I had rather be the first man here, than the second man in Rome." In like manner we are told, that, when he was in Spain, he bestowed some leisure hours in reading part of the history of Alexander* and was so much affected with it, that he sat pensive
Page 236 - writing, his friends advised him, on his first application to business, and soliciting one of the great offices of state, to lay aside or change that name: but he answered with great spirit, " That he would endeavour to make the name of Cicero more glorious than that of the Scauri and the Catuli.
Page 31 - raising his voice, threatened to put him to death, if he gave him any further trouble. " And, young man," said he, "you are not ignorant that this is harder for me to say than to do." Metellus, terrified with his menace, retired, and afterwards Caesar was easily and readily supplied with every
Page 267 - with a favourable wind. The pilots were preparing immediately to sail from thence; but whether it was that he feared the sea, or had not yet given up all his hopes in Caesar, he disembarked, and travelled a hundred furlongs on foot, as if Rome had been the place of his
Page 463 - as possible. It was no great distance from the garden to the wall, and to a tower in which was placed a great hunting dog to alarm the guard: but whether he was naturally drowsy, or had wearied himself the day before, he did not perceive their entrance: but the gardener's dogs awakening him by
Page 12 - yet, when called as an evidence on the trial, he declared he knew nothing of what was alleged against Clodius. As this declaration appeared somewhat strange, the accuser demanded, why, if that was the case, he had divorced his wife? " Because," said he, " I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
Page 194 - as soon as he understood that the people were assembled there: but, in going out of his house, he stumbled upon the threshold, and struck it with so much violence, that the nail of his great toe was broken, and the blood flowed from the wound. When he had got a little on his way,