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Page 9
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 2 . insufficient
...
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 2 . insufficient
...
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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 full of his
...
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 full of his
...
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Isia is Isia , I grant ; but whether is the better , to avoid temptation , or to withstand
it ? the whole ativir is a credit to him . As for his being a mountebank , you ought
to know better , Cato , than to talk in that vein . The change is unsubstantiated ...
Isia is Isia , I grant ; but whether is the better , to avoid temptation , or to withstand
it ? the whole ativir is a credit to him . As for his being a mountebank , you ought
to know better , Cato , than to talk in that vein . The change is unsubstantiated ...
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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
make , and the ...
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
make , and the ...
Page 23
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 |
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Contributor | William Emerton Heitland |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1874 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2020 |
| Length | 111 pages |
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