Synopses & Reviews
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: EXERCISES FOR WRITTEN TRANSLATION. CICERO, LAELIUS. Chapter I. 1 The book in which Cicero sets forth his views 'on the subject of friendship is, like the Cato Major, a dialogue made to rest on the authority of men of 2 the olden times. This essay, 2as well as the other, Cicero dedicated to his friend Atticus, who had often urged him to write a book of this sort, and8 at whose request he had, not many months4 before, composed 3 his treatise5 on old age. In the latter6 work,7 Cato, almost the oldest and certainly the wisest man of his times, was just the character to take that part in a discussion on old age in which Cicero introduced 4 him; for he was an old man for many years and refers to Synonyms. 250, Hem.: A. and S. 415: G. 400: H. 423. 1 de. and disputatio. 2 i.e. also. 6 What pronoun ? See A. and 8 When translated ? SeeSyn., G. 102, a: A. and S. 181 (4): G. B.v., note 2. 290, Eem. 1: H. 450, 2. What case ? See A. and G. 7 Why not opus ? in his very age lie was eminently happy. In the 1 former,1 Laelius, surnamed the Wise and far-famed for his intimate friendship with Scipio, discusses friendship. After the death of Scipio, 2B.c. 129, the eyes of all 2 were turned to Laelius to see8 how he bore his affliction. A wise man like him ought to find his virtue 3 superior to all the changes and chances of mortal life. But people8 feared that he did not bear his 4 grief as became5 the true philosopher; for, inasmuch 5 as he had been absent from the last meeting of the college of augurs, they thought that in his deep sorrow he 'had been unfaithful to a duty which at all other times he had performed most scrupulously. But 6 they 7were unjust to accuse8 a man of so sound a character of neglecting9 his duty; for it was his 7 health and ...
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