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Third Year Latin for Sight Reading, Selections from Sallust and Cicero
Third Year Latin for Sight Reading Selections from Sallust and Cicero Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Edmund Barss, Sallust Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: veril simile est, cum ceterae partes aetatis bene descrlp- tae2 sint, extremum actum3 tamquam ab inerti4 poeta esse neglectum. Sed6 tamen necesse fuit esse aliqu... more »id extremum et tamquam6 in arborum bacis terraeque 5 fructibus maturitate7 tempestiva quasi8 vietum9 et caducum, quod ferendum est molliter10 sapientl. Quid 1 1 est enim aliud Gigantum12 modo bellare cum dis nisi naturae repugnare ? Laelius. Atqui,13 Cato, gratissimum nobls, ut14 etiam 10 pro Scipione pollicear, feceris, si, quoniam speramus, volumus quidem16 certe senes fieri, multo ante a te didicerimus16 quibus facillime rationibus ingravescen- tem17 aetatem ferre possimus. Cato. Faciam vero, Laeli, praesertim si utrique M ves- 15 trum, ut dicis, gratum futurum est. Laelius. Volumus sane, nisi molestum est, Cato, tam- 1. veri simile: probable. 9. vietum et caducum (cado) : 2. composed. Life is repre- a time to wither and to fall; lit. sented as a drama, whose author somethingwithered and falling. is Nature. 10. patiently. 3. Cf. Shakespeare's Seven n. quid est enim aliud . . . Ages of Man. bellare . . . nisi: for what does 4. unskilled. warfare . . . mean but. 5. sed . . . sapienti: i.e. the 12. Gigantum modo: after the philosopher will recognize that manner of the Giants (who fought the life of man, like that of plants, unsuccessfully against the gods.) has its natural period of ripeness, 13. and yet. followed by decay. 14. ut . . pollicear: to speak 6. tamquam . . . bacis (baca, for Scipio as well as myself. -ae, f.) : just as in the case of the 15. or at least. fruits of trees. 16. disco, -ere, didici: learn. 7. maturitate tempestiva: 17. ingravescentem aetatem: when they are fully ripe; lit. at the growing weight of years. their due maturity. 18. What construction ...« less