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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Cicero

Surely that is all you can have been waiting for – short of expecting that the case and Truth themselves will somehow take shape and speak and plead in their ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:Plutarch

45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...

azw3 |eng | 2003-08-27 | Author:Polybius

BOOK V Affairs in Egypt THE DEATH OF CLEOMENES The young Ptolemy Philopator took possession of the throne of Egypt early in 221 B.C. Seleucus, King of Syria, had died ...

azw3 |eng | 2005-02-23 | Author:Seneca

On the Shortness of Life [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] [1] Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Frank Frost Abbott

Diocletian's Edict and the High Cost of Living The history of the growth of paternalism in the Roman Empire is still to be written. It would be a fascinating and ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Peter E Knox & J C McKeown (ed) [Knox, Peter E & McKeown, J C]

MEDEA The background to this play is formed by the heroic exploits of Jason in bringing back the Golden Fleece to Greece from the barbarian land of Colchis. He was ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Plutarch

26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | 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 ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Cicero [Tullius Cicero, Marcus]

53. Let us now look at the main point: for which one of them was the actual spot where they came to blows more convenient? Jurors, is that something that ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

Surely that is all you can have been waiting for – short of expecting that the case and Truth themselves will somehow take shape and speak and plead in their ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]

Other Science Dating Claims? In the AD 1980s, analysis of ice cores from Greenland identified acidity peaks that correspond to major volcanism (Hammer, Clausen, and Dansgaard 1980), and it was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Irmgard Keun

Gilgi is lying in bed. She’s asleep. Wakes up: one in the morning. Martin has gone out. Why shouldn’t a man go out by himself sometimes? That’s quite in order. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...