M. Tulli Ciceronis Cato Maior de senectute: a dialogue on old ageGinn, 1908 - 105 pages |
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Page vii
... Roman poets , beginning with Ennius , abound in ideas taken from Greek philosophy , but this learning was first formally in- troduced among the Romans in 155 B.C. , when Carneades the Academician , Critolaus the Peripatetic , and ...
... Roman poets , beginning with Ennius , abound in ideas taken from Greek philosophy , but this learning was first formally in- troduced among the Romans in 155 B.C. , when Carneades the Academician , Critolaus the Peripatetic , and ...
Page viii
... Cato Maior ( de Senectute ) , de Divinatione , de Fato , Laelius ( de Amicitia ) , de Gloria , * de Officiis , de Virtutibus , * de Auguriis . * by numerous illustrations drawn from Roman history and poli- tics viii ON OLD AGE.
... Cato Maior ( de Senectute ) , de Divinatione , de Fato , Laelius ( de Amicitia ) , de Gloria , * de Officiis , de Virtutibus , * de Auguriis . * by numerous illustrations drawn from Roman history and poli- tics viii ON OLD AGE.
Page ix
... Roman history and poli- tics , and thus gives a new lease of life and a wider sphere of usefulness to the loftiest thoughts and noblest ideals of his pred- ecessors . In this lies the value of his philosophical writings to his ...
... Roman history and poli- tics , and thus gives a new lease of life and a wider sphere of usefulness to the loftiest thoughts and noblest ideals of his pred- ecessors . In this lies the value of his philosophical writings to his ...
Page xi
... Roman authors , but even the thoughts and sentiments are not such as belong to the tough and hard - headed Cato , whom Cicero employs as a lay - figure , to be dressed in the mental costume of his own day . And , withal , he fashions ...
... Roman authors , but even the thoughts and sentiments are not such as belong to the tough and hard - headed Cato , whom Cicero employs as a lay - figure , to be dressed in the mental costume of his own day . And , withal , he fashions ...
Page xiii
... Roman youth . His son Marcus , who died B.C. 152 , —a man of marked genius and merit , -mar- ried the daughter of Aemilius Paulus , and so was brother - in- law of the younger Scipio . Another son , born when Cato was eighty years old ...
... Roman youth . His son Marcus , who died B.C. 152 , —a man of marked genius and merit , -mar- ried the daughter of Aemilius Paulus , and so was brother - in- law of the younger Scipio . Another son , born when Cato was eighty years old ...
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