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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)

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of those armies into the field against Philip which he raised byhis eloquence. Cicero, on the other hand, was sent quaestor intoSicily, and proconsul into Cilicia and Cappadocia, at a time whenavarice was at the height, and the commanders and governorswho were employed abroad, as though they… … 832 LITERATURE. the most abundant proofs alike of his contempt of riches and ofhis humanity and good nature. And at Rome, when he wascreated consul in name, but indeed received sovereign and dicta-torial authority against Catiline and his conspirators, he attestedthe truth of Platos prediction,…

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