Selected Letters Of Cicero With Notes By Ce Prichard And Er Bernard

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230135571
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Selected Letters of Cicero, with Notes by C. E. Prichard and E. R. Bernard written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... as he had hoped, he now meant to go to Cyzicus. This intention he did not carry out. 5. Secundum comitia: immediately after the election of consuls, which took place in July. 'Secundum, ' 'next to, ' 'close I(y, ' is used of space and time. 'Duo vulnera accepisse, unum in stomacho, altejtnm in capite, secundum aurem' Fam. 4. 12. Pompeius had intimated that he would use his influence that the decree for Cicero's recall might be proposed after this election. This was done by the tribunes on the 29th of October (Att. 3. 23), but the law was not then carried. The consuls chosen for the year 57 B.C. were QMetellus Nepos and P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, of whom the latter was a friend of Cicero, and the former, through the influence of Pompeius and Atticus, took the same side. 7. Proinde--ae, 'I shall take it.as if you had written that nothing was done.' 'Proinde' is equivalent to 'perinde' in such cases. Fam. 10. 24 'Hunc filii loco non proinde habere turpe videtur.' Lucret. 5. 647 'Ut sunt dissimiles extrinsecus--Proinde et seminibus distant.' 8. Neque temporis... feram, 'nor shall I regret that I was led away by the hope of (my return happening at) no distant time.' 9. Quem autem motum. He elsewhere (Q. Fr. 1. 4) alludes to some movements in the city which might be favourable to him, but not distinctly enough to explain what they were, which indeed he seems not to have known himself. n. In tribunis plebis designates. Among these were Sestius, an active friend of Cicero, Milo (the enemy of Clodius), Fabricius and Fadius, both of whom exerted themselves for him. 12. Quam si exspectaro, 'and if I wait for this;' i.e. by not encouraging myself to hope before. 13. Acousas, cur: a mixture of' accusas quod ' and ' rogas cur.' 17. Atque utinam, '...