St. Augustine, after his conversion even, felt a repugnance for the holy Scriptures as unequal to Cicero in form.

THE ORATOR TREATISE on TOPICS A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORICAL PARTITIONS TREATISE ON THE BEST STYLE OF ORATORS THE FOURTEEN ORATIONS OF M.T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS, CALLED PHILIPPICS.

He was never a rich man, but always an embarrassed man, because he had expensive tastes, like Cicero at Rome and Bacon in England.

But he is nearer the truth who calls all of these metaphors.[304] From Cicero on, allegory has a long history as a rhetorical figurea trope.[305] St. Augustine recommends that students of the scriptures study the rhetorical figures so that they may be able to interpret the tropes in the Bible, such as allegory.[306]

A speech is then made by the Cicero of the day; he says much, and suppresses more; and credit is equally given to what he tells, and what he conceals.

l. c.; Liv. xxvi. 36), in that of Cicero as the badge of the children of the equestrian order (Cic. Verr.

The fragment is brief and mutilated, but so much is clear: Philodemus criticizes the party of Cicero for carrying the attack upon Antony to such extremes that through fear of the liberators a reaction in favor of Antony might set in.

The golden age of Roman jurisprudence was from the birth of Cicero to the reign of the Emperor Alexander Severus, 222 A.D.; before this period it was an occult science, confined to praetors, pontiffs, and patrician lawyers.

On their arrival from Scotland, Byron was placed by his mother under the care of an empirical pretender of the name of Lavender, at Nottingham, who professed the cure of such cases; and that he might not lose ground in his education, he was attended by a respectable schoolmaster, Mr Rodgers, who read parts of Virgil and Cicero with him.

He had been known to Cicero from his early age, and Cicero felt a fatherly attachment to him; he saw in him a young man who he hoped would exert a beneficial influence upon the next generation.

He was working in every way to be elected, through Cicero among others, and so earnestly that he promised to make him his colleague.

True, these expenses often led Cicero into debt and difficulties; but what he borrowed from his friends he seems always to have repaid, so that the money must have come in from some quarter or other.

Though he was younger than Cicero by nearly a generation, the great orator did him no little deference as a representative of the Atticistic group.

; the first letter written by Cicero after his return from exile.]

There is more in the writings of Plato and Cicero about immortality than in the whole of the Old Testament, And this fact is so remarkable, that some trace to the sages of Greece and Egypt the doctrine itself, as ordinarily understood; that is, a necessary existence of the soul after death.

This case placed Cicero above Hortensius, hitherto the leader of the Roman bar.

But as it was, I should have as soon thought of turning my pale plaster-of-paris bust of Cicero out of doors.

This was Caesar's statement; Crassus showed some favor to Cicero through his son but himself took the side of the multitude.