The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volum 2Bell & Daldy, 1866 |
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Side 89 - ... mind, carry him so much after the notions themselves, that for the most part he is too warm to judge of the aptness of words, and the justness of figures ; so that he either neglects these too much, or overdoes them : But when a man translates, he has none of these heats about him ; and therefore the French took no ill method, when they intended to reform and beautify their language, in setting their best writers on work to translate the Greek and Latin authors into it.
Side 357 - Plutarch raises the question without settling it, whether change of fortune really changes a man's temper, or whether power merely discovers the bad qualities which have hitherto been concealed. The answer to the question is not difficult ; most men, nearly all, are capable of crime under certain circumstances.
Side 45 - Germans designate robbers by the name of Cimbri. Others thought that Celtica extended in a wide and extensive tract from the external sea and the subarctic regions to the rising sun and the Lake Maeotis,* where it bordered on Pontic Scythia ; and it was from this region, as they supposed, where the tribes are mingled, that these invaders came, and that they did not advance in one expedition nor yet uninterruptedly, but that every spring they moved forwards, fighting their way, till in the course...
Side 357 - ... both lion and fox. He was both man and woman too : he felt like a woman, but he had the energy of a man. His character was not fully shown till opportunity came. His behaviour when he was absolute master led some to think that power changes men's tempers and makes them violent, proud, and inhuman.
Side 45 - The most probable conjecture was that they were Germanic nations belonging to those who extended as far as the northern ocean ; and this opinion was founded on their great stature, their blue eyes, and on the fact that the Germans designate robbers by the name of Cimbri.
Side 357 - ... qualities which have hitherto been concealed. The answer to the question is not difficult ; most men, nearly all, are capable of crimes under certain circumstances. Fortunately for the world, opportunity does not come to all. Experience shows that power, place, opportunity, prosperity, and temptation discover in a man qualities unknown to others, and not suspected even by himself. Sometimes the man becomes great and noble; sometimes mean, cruel, and contemptible. It is power which gives the greatest...
Side 397 - ... down and lasted till night ; so Sulla's good fortune seemed to follow him to his funeral, and to stay with him to the last. His monument is in the Campus Martius. The inscription, which they say he wrote and left behind him, says in substance, that none of his friends ever did him a kindness, and none of his enemies ever did him a wrong, without being fully repaid.
Side 19 - In Long, Decline of the Roman Republic, vol. ii. 19, is the following : " I find nothing about surgeons in the Roman army, and yet broken limbs and ugly wounds would require more skill and attention than a soldier could have from his comrades. The Fabri, who were able to use their hands, might give some help ; but it is hardly possible that there were no surgeons or physicians in a Roman army, when they were employed to look after the health and wounds of gladiators. Caesar on one occasion speaks...
Side 369 - But, as the historian remarks, ' a man who is superstitious is capable of any crime, for he believes that his gods can be conciliated by prayers and presents.
Side 368 - Felix : and when he wrote to Greeks or had any business to transact with them, he called himself Epaphroditus. In our country also, on the trophies of Sulla, there is the inscription : Lucius Cornelius Sulla Epaphroditus. As Metella bore him twins, Sulla named troublesome to a clown, as he was ploughing. Twice he stopped his ploughing and purged his jacket. But he was still bitten, and in order that he might not be hindered in his work, he burnt the jacket ; and I advise those who have been twice...