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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge), THE FOURTEEN ORATIONS OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS, CALLED PHILIPPICS., chapter 5 (search)
What reason had he then for endeavouring, with such bitter hostility, to force me
into the senate yesterday? Was I the only person who was absent? Have you not
repeatedly had thinner houses than yesterday? Or was a matter of such importance
under discussion, that it was desirable for even sick men to be brought down?
Hannibal, I suppose, was at the
gates, or there was to be a debate about peace with Pyrrhus, on which occasion
it is related that even the great Appius, old and blind as he was, was brought
down to the senate-house. There was a motion
being made about some supplications; a kind of measure when senators are not
usually wanting; for they are under the compulsion, not of pledges, but of the
influence of those men whose honour is being complimented; and the case is the
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK I.Lemaire informs us, in his title-page, that the two first books of the
Natural History are edited by M. Alexandre, in his edition. , DEDICATION. (search)