Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 341 pages of information about Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 341 pages of information about Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero.

Page 121, l. 11. monumentum, etc.:  a monument more enduring than bronze.

Page 123, l. 20. vere humanus: truly refined.

Page 127, l. 23. omnia, etc.:  he transforms himself into all portentous shapes.

Page 130, l. 20. menager ses transitions: to pass gradually over to the other side.

Page 132, l. 18. de vi: of criminal violence.

Page 133, l. 9. Uni se, etc.:  they are addicted to one and the same practice, that they may cautiously cheat and craftily contend, outdo each other in blandishments, feign honesty, set snares as if they were all enemies to each other.

Page 133, l. 28. rari nantes, etc.:  few and scattered swimmers in the vast abyss.

Page 142 (bottom). Claudite, etc.:  close the doors, maidens, enough have we sung.  And you, noble couple, live happily and apply your vigorous youth to the assiduous task of wedlock.

Page 149, footnote 2. Si quid, etc.:  if a woman act reprehensibly or disgracefully, he punishes her; if she has drunk wine, if she has done something wrong with a stranger, he condemns her.  If you surprise your wife in the act of adultery, you may with impunity kill her without any form of judgment; but if she caught you in adultery, she would not dare touch you, for she has no right.

Page 150, l. 11. liberorum, etc.:  in order to have children.

Page 155, l. 22. Odi, etc.:  I hate and I love.  You ask perhaps how that can be.  I do not know, I feel it, and am distressed.

Page 155 (bottom). Elle apportait, etc.:  she revealed in her private behavior, in her affections, the same vehemence and the same passion which her brother showed in public life.  Ready for all excesses, and not blushing to confess them, loving and hating with fury, incapable of controlling herself, and opposed to all constraint, she did not belie the great and haughty family from which she was sprung.

Page 178,1. 3. rusticorum, etc.: 

  The farmer-soldier’s manly brood
  Was trained to delve the Sabine sod,
  And at an austere mother’s nod
  To hew and fetch the fagot wood.

Page 178, l. 20. Maxima, etc.:  the greatest concern must be shown for children.

Page 185, l. 8. Avarus, etc.: 

  The covetous is the cause of his own misery. 
  Bravery is increased by daring and fear by hesitation. 
  You can more easily discover fortune than cling to it. 
  The wrath of the just is to be dreaded. 
  A man dies every time that he is bereft of his kin. 
  Man is loaned, not given to life. 
  The best strife is rivalry in benignity. 
  Nothing is pleasing unless renewed by variety. 
  Bad is the plan which cannot be altered. 
  Less often would you err if you knew how much you don’t know. 
  He who shows clemency always comes out victorious. 
  He who respects his oath succeeds in everything. 
  Where old age is at fault youth is badly trained.

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