Identifier: historyofromeofr03duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
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Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett
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ge satisfaction; and when he hadsatiated himself with the cruel spectacle, ordered them to be fast-ened above the rostra. Crowds flocked to see them, as they had latelydone to hear the great orator, but with tears and groans. Octa-vius himself was secretly grieved at the death of Cicero ; and althoughduring his reign none ever dared pronounce that great name, as a rep-aration he gave the consulship to the son of his former enemy. On one occasion he even bore witness to Ciceros virtues. Ihave been told, relates Plutarch, that, several years afterwards,Augustus, visiting one of his nephews, found him with a work ofCiceros in his hands. The boy, for fear, hid the book luider his Fnrmiae (Mnla di Gaetn) is four miles from Gaeta. There may still be seen there,about a mile from the shore, some remains of Ciceros villa, and the inhabitants point out anobelisk which they assert is his tomb (Eustace, Classical Tour, ii. 313). He lacked buttwenty-nine days of completin;;; hfs sixty-fourth year.
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DEATH OF CAESAR TO THE SECOND Till UMViRATE. 593 robe; which Caesar 2)erceiving, took it from hiin, and turning overa great part of the Ijook standing, gave it him again and said: My child, this was a learned man and a lover of his country. * Thus perished, in tlie splendor of his talent, the prince ofRoman orators and one of the most honorable men who ever adornedliterature, —one of those whose writings have most contributedto the moral development of humanity. Doubtless Cicero cannot be counted among really great minds.As a philosopher his part is small; he expounds and discusses,without advancing views of his own, the opinions of the diiferentschools. He says this himself in one of his letters to Atticus : I have little trouble about it, for I only furnish the words, of whichI have an abundance. ^ His treatise De Officiis is a Latin gospel;but he copied Panaetios. Part of his works on rhetoric are trans-lated or imitated from the Greeks. His treatises on laws are rathera brillian

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