Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... Roman orator , was born in the year of Rome 647 , about 107 years before Chrift . His father Marcus Tullius , who was of the equeftrian order , took great care of his education , which was directed particularly with a view to the bar ...
... Roman orator , was born in the year of Rome 647 , about 107 years before Chrift . His father Marcus Tullius , who was of the equeftrian order , took great care of his education , which was directed particularly with a view to the bar ...
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... Roman people . " Cicero had no fooner entered upon his office than he had occafion to exert himself against P. Servilius Rullus , one of the new tribunes , who had been alarm ing the fenate with the promulgation of an Agrarian law ; the ...
... Roman people . " Cicero had no fooner entered upon his office than he had occafion to exert himself against P. Servilius Rullus , one of the new tribunes , who had been alarm ing the fenate with the promulgation of an Agrarian law ; the ...
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... Roman citizen unheard , fhould himfelf be banished , he foon after impeached Cicero upon it . It was in vain that this great man went up and down the city foliciting his caufe in the habit of a fuppliant , and attended by many of the ...
... Roman citizen unheard , fhould himfelf be banished , he foon after impeached Cicero upon it . It was in vain that this great man went up and down the city foliciting his caufe in the habit of a fuppliant , and attended by many of the ...
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... Roman ladies . His affliction for the death of this daughter was fo great , that , to fhun all company as much as he could , he removed to Atticus's house , where he lived chiefly in his library , turning over every book he could meet ...
... Roman ladies . His affliction for the death of this daughter was fo great , that , to fhun all company as much as he could , he removed to Atticus's house , where he lived chiefly in his library , turning over every book he could meet ...
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... Roman people , fo lamentably expofed to the fcorn of fycophants and traitors . The deaths of the reft , fays an hiftorian of that age , caufed only a private and particular for- - row ; but Cicero's an univerfal one . It was a triumph ...
... Roman people , fo lamentably expofed to the fcorn of fycophants and traitors . The deaths of the reft , fays an hiftorian of that age , caufed only a private and particular for- - row ; but Cicero's an univerfal one . It was a triumph ...
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