Cicero: The Orations, IX-XVIIA. J. Valpy, M.A. and sold by all booksellers, 1833 |
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Side 135 - These stories were all discovered to be false, malicious forgeries : but if, after all, Milo must still be feared, it is no longer the affair of Clodius, but your suspicions, Pompey, which we dread ; your — your suspicions, I say, and speak it so, that you may hear me. If you are afraid of Milo, if you imagine that he is either now forming, or has ever before contrived, any wicked design against your life ; if the forces of Italy, as some of your agents...
Side 106 - For this, my lords, is not a written but an innate law — we have not been taught it by the learned, we have not received it from our ancestors, we have not taken it from books ; but it is derived from, it is forced upon us by nature, and stamped in indelible characters upon our very frame. It was not conveyed to us by instruction, but wrought into our constitution ; it is the dictate, not of education, but instinct, that, if our lives should be at any time in danger from concealed or more open...
Side 9 - There never was such a monster on earth, compounded of passions so contrary and opposite. Who was ever more agreeable at one time to the best citizens; who more intimate at another with the worst ? who a man of better principles ? who a fouler enemy to this city?
Side 129 - ... by words, it would even then clearly appear which was the traitor, and which was free from all mischievous designs ; when the one was sitting in his chariot, muffled up in his cloak, and his wife along with him. Which of these circumstances was not a very great...
Side 187 - Antony took this as an affront, and in great rage threatened openly in the senate, to order his house to be pulled down, if he did not come immediately; till by the interposition of the assembly, he was dissuaded from using any violence. The business of the day was to decree some extraordinary honours to the memory of Caesar, with a religious supplication to him, as to a divinity. Cicero was determined not to concur in it, yet knew that an opposition would not only be fruitless but dangerous ; and...
Side 174 - What, Tubero, did that naked sword of yours mean in the battle of Pharsalia? At whose breast was its point aimed? What was then the meaning of your arms, your spirit, your eyes, your hands, your ardor of soul ? What did you desire, what wish for ? I press the youth too much ; he seems disturbed.
Side 187 - ... odious to the soldiery ; but as he was absent, the decree passed without any contradiction. The senate met again the next day, when Antony thought fit to absent himself, and leave the stage clear to Cicero * ; who accordingly appeared, and delivered the...
Side 128 - Milo's journey was necessary, but that of Clodius rather the contrary; that the one openly declared his intention of leaving Rome that day, while the other concealed his intention of returning; that Milo made no alteration in his measures, but that Clodius feigned an excuse for altering his ; that if Milo had designed to waylay Clodius, he would have waited for him near the city till it was dark, but that Clodius, even if he had been under no apprehensions from Milo, ought to have been afraid of...
Side 136 - ... suited to times and circumstances; what desertion, what cowardice in our dangers, even of those who are dearest to us ; there will, there will, I say, be a time, and the day will certainly come, when you with safety still, I hope, to your fortunes, though changed, perhaps, by some turn of the common times, which, as experience shews, will often happen to us all, may want the affection of the friendliest, the fidelity of the worthiest, the courage of the bravest man living ',
Side 163 - ... bravery, yet more must be attributed to your good fortune, but as often as you think of us, whom you have reserved to enjoy with yourself the happiness of our country, so often shall be revived in your mind the pleasing remembrance of your extensive beneficence, of your amazing generosity, and of your unparalleled wisdom : virtues which, I will venture to say, not only constitute the highest, but the only happiness of our natures. So distinguished a lustre is there in deserved applause, so great...