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I have then taken Halm's text of 1868 as a convenient starting - point , deviating from it chiefly in passages where he inserts conjectural emendations into the text , or condemns the reading of the better MSS . on what seem to me ...
I have then taken Halm's text of 1868 as a convenient starting - point , deviating from it chiefly in passages where he inserts conjectural emendations into the text , or condemns the reading of the better MSS . on what seem to me ...
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But no one knew better than Cicero that the real key to the defence lay in the political situation of the moment . Catiline's conspiracy was discovered but not crushed the ringleader was still in arms , the capital was thought to be ...
But no one knew better than Cicero that the real key to the defence lay in the political situation of the moment . Catiline's conspiracy was discovered but not crushed the ringleader was still in arms , the capital was thought to be ...
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Asia is Asia , I grant ; but whether is the better , to avoid temptation , or to withstand it ? the whole affair is a credit to him . As for his being a mountebank , you ought to know better , Cato , than to talk in that vein .
Asia is Asia , I grant ; but whether is the better , to avoid temptation , or to withstand it ? the whole affair is a credit to him . As for his being a mountebank , you ought to know better , Cato , than to talk in that vein .
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Again , oratory too is a pursuit far better adapted for a public career than jurisprudence . Many a jurist has begun life as a public speaker and failed ; jurisprudence was but his second string . Think of the exertions the orator must ...
Again , oratory too is a pursuit far better adapted for a public career than jurisprudence . Many a jurist has begun life as a public speaker and failed ; jurisprudence was but his second string . Think of the exertions the orator must ...
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Had you been an Academic or a Peripatetic you had been , not perhaps a better , but a gentler man : you would never have shewn such animosity towards Murena . Yet I think that with age you will come round ; you are now still a young man ...
Had you been an Academic or a Peripatetic you had been , not perhaps a better , but a gentler man : you would never have shewn such animosity towards Murena . Yet I think that with age you will come round ; you are now still a young man ...
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| Title | M.T. Ciceronis Oratio Pro L. Murena Pitt press series |
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Contributor | William Emerton Heitland |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press, 1874 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Length | 111 pages |
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