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M. Tulli Ciceronis De Oratore Liber Primus
M Tulli Ciceronis De Oratore Liber Primus Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn Subjects: Oratory, Ancient Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial a... more »ccess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES. In the references to grammars, A. -- Allen and Greenough; G. -- Gtldersleere; H. -- Harkness; M. -- Madvig (Ainer. ed., Glnn Bros., 1871); E. -- Eoby. There are occasional references to Ramsay's Manual of Roman Antiquities (Ram.) and to Mommsen's History of Rome (Mom.). In the case of the hist, use has heen made of Scribner's American edition (1875) as more convenient for most students. 1. 1. Cogitanti. . . repetenti: thinking over the past and recalling it in memory, as I often do. For the expression, of. 2, 6; and Lael. 8, 26: saepissime igitur mihi de amicitia cogitanti maxime illud considerandum videre solet. saepe numero, modifies both participles and is equivalent to a clause. Connecting the common adverb with the first and the common object (vetera) with the second, gives a rhythmic balance to the two members, see Intr.9, I. e. vetera: A. 189, b; G. 204, N. 2; H.441,1: not an- tiqua nor praeterita ("as it was formerly"), because the long past is held in vivid relation to the present. -- memoria : Cicero also has repetere memoriam rei, as, pro Deiot. 7,20: repete illius temporis memoriam. -- perbeati fuisse: e. g. the elder Scipio; see opening of Book III. de Off. Cicero expresses himself similarly with reference to the good fortune of the earlier statesmen in Brut. 2, 9: itaque ei mihi videntur fortunate beateque vixisse cum in ceteris civitatibus turn maxime in nostra quttnis cum auctoritate rerumque gestarum gloria turn etiam sapientiae laude perfrui licuit. -- in optima re publica: in the best period of the re...« less