Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, Book First: The Dream of Scipio; and Extracts from the Dialogues on Old Age and FriendshipJ. Allyn, late Sever, Francis & Company, 1872 - 208 pages |
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ablative according adopted animi animus Archimedes best MSS Brutus caelum case Cato Cicero Cicero's Cineas cited cites clause Cloth construction consul death Deor deus Dicaearchus edition editors read ellipsis Empedocles English Ennius esset Euripides expressed expression F. A. Wolf first force form found future given great Greek Hand's Tursel Hand's Tursellinus Hecuba idea igitur imperfect ipsum ista Klotz Kühner Laelius Latin lines Macrobius made mihi mind mors mortem Moser natura neque nihil Nobbe note notes omnibus Orat Orelli particle passage philosopher philosophy place Plato Plautus potest pronoun proposition Pythagoras quum reading reason regard relative same says Scil Scipio second See supra sentence sentiment signification similar Simonides sine Smith's Socrates Somnium Scipionis soul speaker state subject subjunctive tamen things thought time Tischer treatise Tregder Tusc Tusculan Disputations used verb verse vita vitae whole word words writers καὶ τὸ
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Page 193 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 190 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear...
Page 179 - Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay; So thou, with sails how swift! hast reached the shore ' Where tempests never beat nor billows roar;' And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life, long since has anchored at thy side.
Page 128 - Athenae tuae peperisse atque in vitam hominurn attulisse, turn nihil melius illis mysteriis, quibus ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus, initiaque ut appellantur, ita re vera principia vitae cognovimus ; neque solum cum laetitia vivendi rationem accepimus, sed etiam cum spe meliore moriendi.
Page 179 - But no, — what here we call our life is such, So little to be loved, and thou so much, That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. Thou, as a gallant bark, from Albion's coast (The storms all...
Page 179 - Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he, That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...
Page 29 - Animorum nulla in terris origo inveniri potest; nihil enim est in animis mixtum atque concretum, aut quod ex terra natum atque fictum esse videatur, nihil ne aut umidum' quidem aut flabile aut igneum.
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Page 29 - Nee vero deus ipse, qui intelligitur a nobis, alio modo intelligi potest nisi mens soluta quaedam et libera, segregata ab omni concretione mortali, omnia sentiens et movens ipsaque praedita 67 motu sempiterno." Hoc e genere atque eadem e natura est humana mens.