Progressive Exercises for Advanced Students in Latin Composition
by Henry Davis
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150087424
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... Fathers, if your authority is lightly regarded among the Commons? You yourselves deprive it of its weight, For instance, because the Commons have broken through a decree of the Senate auro captam. 7 Use ingredi in both places. oblitum. ausurum se. i vana. elevare. quippe quina. with respect to the re-election of their magistrates; you wish to break through it also, lest you should fall short of the populace in rashness; as if superiority of power in the state 6 consisted in superior degrees of inconstancy and irregularity; for, surely, it is an instance of greater inconstancy and irregularity, for us to recall our own decrees and resolutions, than those of others. Go on, Conscript Fathers, to imitate the inconsiderate multitude; and you, who ought 7 to show an example to the rest, rather follow the steps of others in a wrong course, than guide them into the right one. But let me not imitate the tribunes, nor suffer myself to be declared consul in contradiction to the decree of the senate. And you, Caius Claudius, I exhort, that you, on your part, restrain the Roman people from this licentiousness; and on my part, be persuaded, I shall regard your conduct therein in such a light, that I shall not consider you as obstructing my attainment of honour, but "as augmenting the glory of my refusal, and protecting me against the ignominy which I shall incur by being re-elected." They then issued their joint orders, that "no person should vote for Lucius Quintius being consul; and that, if any one did, they would not allow such vote." XIII. The History Op Virginius And His Daughter. i. Narrative.--Appius Claudius was inflamed with a criminal passion towards a young woman of plebeian rank. The father of this young woman, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150087424 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150087420 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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