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He studied law under two eminent jurists , Lucius Lucilius Balbus and G. Aquillius Gallus , but soon surpassed the latter in painstaking accuracy and the former in despatch ; combining , says Cicero ( ib . § 154 ) , the merits of both ...
He studied law under two eminent jurists , Lucius Lucilius Balbus and G. Aquillius Gallus , but soon surpassed the latter in painstaking accuracy and the former in despatch ; combining , says Cicero ( ib . § 154 ) , the merits of both ...
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Mr Forsyth well says ' it is a striking proof of the elastic energy of Cicero's mind that , at the very moment of the explosion of the conspiracy , and in the midst of the most awful danger , he was ...
Mr Forsyth well says ' it is a striking proof of the elastic energy of Cicero's mind that , at the very moment of the explosion of the conspiracy , and in the midst of the most awful danger , he was ...
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As for you , Sulpicius , it is too bad of you to say that I act unfriendly by you ; but I will calmly defend myself . Did I not support you as a candidate ? yes , but to expect me to help in crushing Murena , is really going too far .
As for you , Sulpicius , it is too bad of you to say that I act unfriendly by you ; but I will calmly defend myself . Did I not support you as a candidate ? yes , but to expect me to help in crushing Murena , is really going too far .
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... you say . A mere piece of luck ; and as quaestors neither of you distinguished himself much . Here you widely diverge from one another . While you went through all the labour and annoyance of a jurist's life at Rome , Murena was in ...
... you say . A mere piece of luck ; and as quaestors neither of you distinguished himself much . Here you widely diverge from one another . While you went through all the labour and annoyance of a jurist's life at Rome , Murena was in ...
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A man , I say , can rise to the top of the political tree in two ways , —either as a soldier or as a public speaker . I set aside your undoubted personal merits , Servius ; we are talking of rising to office .
A man , I say , can rise to the top of the political tree in two ways , —either as a soldier or as a public speaker . I set aside your undoubted personal merits , Servius ; we are talking of rising to office .
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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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