Death No Bane: A New Translation, with Copious Illustrative Notes, of Cicero's First Tusculan Disputation |
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Death No Bane: A New Translation, with Copious Illustrative Notes, of Cicero ... Marcus Tullius Cicero No preview available - 2017 |
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Acheron Achilles Ælius alluded anima animus Apollo Argos Aristotle ARISTOXENUS Athenian Athens bane battle battles of Leuctra blessing body born brother C. J. Cæsar Cadmus Calatinus called Callimachus Cato Catus censor Cicero consciousness consul Crassus daughter dead death deity Democritus Diagoras DICEARCHUS died divine earth Empedocles endure Ennius EPAMINONDAS Epicharmus Epist Euripides famous fear flourished founder glory grandson Greek Hades Hannibal heart Heaven Hercules hero Homer honour Horace Juno King Lacedæmon lack Laomedon Latin latter Leucothea Leuctra lived Lower World Lycurgus Marcus Matuta mind miserable mortal mourn nature never orator Paullus perish Phado Phædo philo philosopher Plato poet Priam Publius Pyrrhus Pythagoras quæ quotation reason rhetorician Roman Rome Romulus Salamis Scipio Africanus Major self-moved Sicily Sisyphus slain Socrates sons soul Sparta Stoic suppose Tarquinius Thebes Theramenes things Thirty Tyrants Thyestes tion triumvirate Troy Tullius victory vide supra whence words Zeno Zeus
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Page 126 - What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again.
Page 125 - Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or as men -say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.
Page 126 - I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is .the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead abide, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this?
Page 127 - Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth — that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods; nor has my own approaching end happened by mere chance. But I see clearly that to die and be released was better for me ; and therefore the oracle gave no sign.
Page 127 - I and my sons will have received justice at your hands. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.
Page 125 - ... dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death...
Page 128 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Page 126 - I say that to die is gain ; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the ; dead are, what good, O my friends
Page 125 - ... either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain.
Page 126 - What would not a man give, O judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition ; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too ! What infinite delight would there be in conversing...