...own corporation."^ There ka, saying likewise recorded of this old gentleman, " that the men of those times were like " the Syrian slaves ; the more Greek they knew,, "the greater knaves they were:"$ which carries with it the notion of an old patriot, severe on the importation of foreign arts, as destructive...

...Marcus Cicero, the father of the same excellent person who is our friend, said, that our countrymen were like the Syrian slaves, the more Greek they knew, the greater rogues they were. Representations of deformity, or any defect in the person, when represented by cany...

...corporation V There is a saying likewise recorded of this old gentleman, " that the men of " those times were like the Syrian slaves ; the more Greek " they knew, the greater knaves they were V which carries with it the notion of an old patriot, severe on the importation of foreign arts, as...

...likewise a characteristic saying of his recorded by his grandson, that the men of his day were like Syrian slaves, — the more Greek they knew the greater knaves they were, — an observation probably aimed at his opponent Gratidius, who was well acquainted with that language....

...likewise a characteristic saying of his recorded by his grandson, that the men of his day were like Syrian slaves, — the more Greek they knew the greater knaves they were, — an obser'•ation probably aimed at his opponent Gratidius, who was •sell acquainted with that...

...corporation'. There is a saying likewise recorded of this old gentleman, That the men of those times wre like the Syrian slaves — the more Greek they knew, the greater knaves they were * ; which carries with it the notion of an old patriot, severe on the importation of foreign arts,...

...Cicero's grandfather had similar fears ; and there is a saying recorded of him, that the men of his times were like the Syrian slaves, the more Greek they knew the greater knaves they were. I .... The degeneracy of the Greeks was but too fatally introduced into Roman manners. Tacitus complains,...

...said that a countless sum of money had been given to Magius4 the governor, and Scaurus tried to refute him, by alleging the poverty of Magius, You mistake...are ; when he exclaimed, Show us, I pray you ; and I pointed with my finger to a Gaul represented upon the Cimbrian shield of Marius under the new shops6...

...a man gathering nuts without his clothes, he has put it into his belly. Or, as when Marcus Cicero5 the elder, the father of that excellent man our friend,...are ; when he exclaimed, Show us, I pray you ; and I pointed with my finger to a Gaul represented upon the Cimbrian shield of Marius under the new shops6...

...orator himself in the wider arena which he eventually occupied — that the men of his day were like Syrian slaves ; " the more Greek they knew, the greater knaves they were." And we know on the same anthority that when the old man had one of the municipal dispntes in which...