Quaeris cur veniam tibi tardior. aurea Phoebi porticus a magno Caesare aperta fuit. et duo Solis erant supra fastigia currus, deinde inter matrem deus ipse interque sororem atque aram circum steterant armenta Myronis, PROPERTIUS III xxix 2. Hac accepta tam insigni iniuria, tamen illo ipso die misi ad Metellum communes amicos qui agerent cum eo ut de illa mente desisteret: quibus ille respondit sibi non esse integrum: etenim paullo ante in contione dixerat ei, qui in alios animum advertisset indicta causa, dicendi ipsi potestatem fieri non oportere. Hominem gravem et civem egregium! qui, qua poena senatus consensu bonorum omnium eos adfecerat, qui urbem incendere et magistratus ac senatum trucidare, bellum maximum conflare voluissent, eadem dignum iudicaret eum, qui curiam caede, urbem incendiis, Italiam bello liberasset. Itaque ego Metello fratri tuo praesenti restiti. Nam in senatu Kal. Jan. sic cum eo de re publica disputavi, ut sentiret sibi cum viro forti et constanti esse pugnandum. A.d. tertium Non Januar. cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat, mihi minabatur, neque illi quidquam deliberatius fuit quam me, quacumque ratione posset, non iudicio neque disceptatione, sed vi atque impressione evertere. Huius ego temeritati si virtute atque animo non restitissem, quis esset qui me in consulatu non casu potius existimaret quam consilio fortem fuisse? CICERO Letters 15 3. Salva magnitudine tua, domine, descendas oportet ad meas curas, cum ius mihi dederis referendi ad te de quibus dubito. In plerisque civitatibus, maxime Nicomediae et Nicaeae, quidam vel in opus damnati vel in ludum similiaque his genera poenarum publicorum servorum officio ministerioque funguntur atque etiam ut publici servi annua accipiunt. Quod ego cum audissem, diu multumque haesitavi quid facere deberem. Nam et reddere poenae post longum tempus plerosque iam senes et, quantum adfirmatur, frugaliter modesteque viventes nimis severum arbitrabar, et in publicis officiis retinere damnatos non satis honestum putabam; eosdem rursus a re publica pasci otiosos inutile, non pasci etiam periculosum existimabam. Necessario ergo rem totam, dum te consulerem, in suspenso reliqui. Quaeres fortasse quemadmodum evenerit ut poenis in quas damnati erant exsolverentur: et ego quaesii, sed nihil conperi quod adfirmare tibi possim. Ut decreta quibus damnati erant proferebantur, ita nulla monimenta quibus liberati probarentur. Erant tamen qui dicerent deprecantes iussu proconsulum legatorumve dimissos. Addebat fidem quod credibile erat neminem hoc ausum sine auctore. PLINY X 31 4. Compare the spirit and the poetry of Horace and Propertius. Honour Latin FINAL YEAR Translate into Latin To Walpole belongs the chief credit of perceiving that the time had come for altering the foreign policy of his party. The Whigs had supported King William in his vast schemes of continental alliances and campaigns. Year after year they had placed all the resources of England at the disposal of Marlborough. They had denounced and resisted the peace of Utrecht, and with every circumstance of passion and animosity had impeached its authors. With Walpole new maxims definitely arose within the Whig party. Principles of peace, of neutrality, of diplomacy, as a substitute for war, began slowly to find favour among them. JOHN MORLEY Walpole J. R. Lowell to his Daughter Madrid, Jan. 22 66 Day before yesterday I was startled with a cipher telegram. My first thought was, Row in Cuba-I shall have no end of bother. "6 It turned out to be this: President has nominated you to England. He regards it as essential to the public service that you should accept and make your personal arrangements to repair to London as early as may be. Your friends whom I have conferred with concur in this view." You see that it is in very agreeable terms, and at least shows that the Government is satisfied with my conduct here. I was afraid of its effects on mamma at first; but she was pleased and began at once to contrive how I could accept, which she wished me to do. I answered: "Feel highly honoured by the President's confidence. Could accept if allowed two months delay. Impossible to move or leave my wife sooner." |