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The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle & Robin Waterfield & Harvey Yunis
epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Aristotle & Robin Waterfield & Harvey Yunis [Aristotle & Waterfield, Robin & Yunis, Harvey]

The conditions in which we feel confident are as follows:a25 • If we believe that we have often been successful without coming to any harm, or that we have always ...
( Category: Speech August 6,2020 )
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Plautus
epub |eng | 1965-07-14 | Author:Plautus [Plautus]

EXEUNT THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER (MILES GLORIOSUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER AN incidental allusion in this play (at line 211) to the imprisonment of a ‘foreign’, i. e. Roman, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 26,2020 )
Marcus Aurelius by John Sellars
epub |eng | 2020-07-23 | Author:John Sellars

Here Marcus draws a threefold division between (i) necessary fate (heimarmenê), (ii) providence (pronoia) that can assist, and (iii) blind chaos. He goes on to say that if fate is ...
( Category: Rome July 24,2020 )
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
epub |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:John Dillon

FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...
( Category: Anthologies July 17,2020 )
Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus by Thomas Habinek
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Thomas Habinek

Quintilian Oratorical Instruction 11.3.51–60 Voice and Breath The voice must not be strained beyond its natural capacity. Strain can make it choke up or become less clear or even make ...
( Category: Greek July 17,2020 )
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Plautus

EXEUNT THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER (MILES GLORIOSUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER AN incidental allusion in this play (at line 211) to the imprisonment of a ‘foreign’, i. e. Roman, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 17,2020 )
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult by Justinian
epub |eng | 2007-02-22 | Author:Justinian

CONCERNING THEFT BOOK 47, TITLE 2 1. (PAUL) Labeo says that the very word for theft (furtum) is itself derived from a Latin word meaning ‘black’, because it is committed ...
( Category: Comparative Politics July 16,2020 )
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Maxwell Staniforth & Andrew Louth
epub |eng | 1987-04-30 | Author:Maxwell Staniforth & Andrew Louth

The Martyrdom of Polycarp From the colony of God’s Church1 at SMYRNA, To the colony of God’s Church at PHILOMELIUM,2 and to all colonies of the Holy Catholic Church everywhere. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
The Early History of Rome by Livy
epub |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Livy

BOOK FOUR War and Politics The next consuls were Marcus Genucius and Gaius Curtius. War and political dissension made the year a difficult one. Hardly had it begun, when the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
Selected Letters by Cicero
epub |eng | 2005-09-29 | Author:Cicero

67 CICERO TO ATTICUS Formiae, 1 March 49 My clerk’s hand will serve as an indication of my ophthalmia and likewise as an excuse for brevity, not that there is ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Michael Grant

THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category: Anthologies July 16,2020 )
Hardship and Happiness (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus]

On the Constancy of the Wise Person LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA TRANSLATED BY JAMES KER (1.1) It would not be unfair for me to say, Serenus, that there is as much ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 2,2020 )
The Annals of Tacitus by S. J. V. Malloch & S. J. V. Malloch
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:S. J. V. Malloch & S. J. V. Malloch [Malloch]

Corbulo: Cn. Domitius Corbulo (PIR2 D 142; RE Suppl. III, Domitius 50; Ritterling [1932] 48–9; Eck [1985] 117–19), half-brother of Suillius (1.1n.). Corbulo's career prior to his legateship of lower ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
A Man from the North by Arnold Bennett
epub |eng | 2016-06-10 | Author:Arnold Bennett

CHAPTER XVI On the Wednesday evening Richard took tea at the Crabtree, so that he might go down by train to Parson’s Green direct from Charing Cross. The coffee-room was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
Cyclops by Mercedes Aguirre & Richard Buxton
epub |eng | 2020-04-19 | Author:Mercedes Aguirre & Richard Buxton

A relief on a sarcophagus in the Palazzo Mattei di Giove in Rome (Cat. 67 (Fig. 8.2)) gives us a not unfamiliar view of Polyphemus and Galatea, but also includes ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 16,2020 )

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