The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth ...C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1830 - Rome |
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Page 544 - ... the people. But as all Patricians were incapable of the Tribunate, by its original institution, so his first step was to make himself a Plebeian by the pretence of an adoption into a Plebeian house, which could not yet be done without the suffrage of the people. This case was wholly new, and contrary to all the forms ; wanting every condition, and serving none of the ends, which were required in regular adoptions ; so that, on the first proposal, it seemed too extravagant to be treated seriously,...
Page 566 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Page 379 - Orat. 1. 6. 2, 2. himself, therefore, particularly for this, he attended the pleadings of all the speakers of his time ; heard the daily lectures of the most eminent orators of Greece, and was perpetually composing somewhat at home, and declaiming under their correction : and, that he might neglect nothing, which could help in any degree to improve and polish his style, he spent the intervals of his leisure in the company of the ladies ; especially of those who were remarkable for a politeness of...
Page 474 - ... hang over us, or else dissemble what they see ; who, by the softness of their votes, cherish Catiline's hopes, and add strength to the conspiracy, by not believing it: whose authority influences many, not only of the wicked, but the weak ; who* if I had punished this man as he deserved, would not have failed to...
Page 475 - And now, perceiving it in vain to dissemble any longer, he resolved to enter into action immediately, before the troops of the republic were increased...
Page 483 - ... it is no time to throw away any of the helps which we have, but, by all means possible, to acquire more. The enemy is not on the banks of the Anio, which was thought so terrible in the Punic war, but in the city and the Forum. Good gods! (I cannot speak it without a sigh,) there are some enemies in the very sanc
Page 453 - ... by the glory of his great acts. Cicero, though he had a good opinion of his cause, yet detested the inhumanity of his victory, and never speaks of him with respect, nor of his government but as a proper tyranny ; calling him a master of three most pestilent vices, luxury, avarice, cruelty s.
Page 467 - Muru;na, who were declared consuls elect. Catiline, thus a second time repulsed, and breathing nothing but revenge, was now eager and impatient to execute his grand plot.
Page 387 - L. Otho, for the assignment of distinct seats, in the theatres, to the equestrian order, who used, before, to sit promiscuously with the populace : but, by this law, fourteen rows of benches, next to those of the senators, were to be appropriated to their use ; by which he secured to them, as Cicero says, both their dignity and their pleasure ". The senate obtained the same privilege, of separate seats...
Page 373 - Then, carrying 381»t. con" with him Aristobulus, and his two sons, Alexander and Antigonus, and two of his daughters, as captives to be led before him in his triumph, he set forward in the way to Rome. Pompey, on his return from Syria...