Books of Friendship, Old Age, & Scipio's Dream
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Books of Friendship, Old Age, & Scipio's Dream Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Books Of Friendship Old Age Scipios Dream PDF full book. Access full book title Books Of Friendship Old Age Scipios Dream.
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hardpress |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-08-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781406955811 |
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Friendship |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230733692 |
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. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... quintus mucius scaevola, Augur, was wont to tell, readily and pleasantly, many things of Caius Laelius, his father-in-law, and not to stick in all his kind of communication to call him Wise. But I was so put to Scaevola by my father, fvhenI came to man's estate, that as nigh as I well eould c#r might, I should never go from the old man's lleeve. And therefore I bare away many things fvisely reasoned, and many things briefly and handomely told, and sought by his wisdom to grow better earned. When he was dead I got me to Publius Scaevo! a, whom alone I dare boldly name the chiefest ff our city for wit and knowledge. But another time fve sh; 11 speak of him; now I return to Scaevola flugur. j As he often talked of sundry matters, so I fcmem ber, sitting at home in his half-round chair (as Sis mai mer was) when I and very few his familiars were Jresent, he fell into that talk which then was almost IpmmcJ n in many men's mouths. For you remember as I think, Atticus--and so much the rather because you haunted Sulpicius company very much--what a wonder of lamentation of men there was, when he being Tribune of the People, disagreed from Quintus Pompeius with a deadly feud, who then was consul; with whom very friendly and lovingly he had lived. 1 Therefore at that time Scaevola, when he fell into a rehearsal thereof, declared unto us the talk that Laelius had upon friendship with him and his other son-inlaw, Caius Fannius, the son of Marcus, shortly aftei Africanus' death; the sum of which disputation I bare away, and have set it forth in this book afer mj own fancy. For I have brought in, as it were themselves speaking, to the intent these words "qujOth I' and "quoth he" should not be too often rehearsed, And the rather I did it that the talk...
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Friendship |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Happiness |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Iain Pears |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2010-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307370887 |
Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.