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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 850
his eloquence. Cicero, on the other hand, was sent quscstor 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 thought it a meanthing to steal, set themselves to seize by open… … 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 CatiHne and his conspirators, he attestedthe truth of Platos prediction, that…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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