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8894	A few good, some indifferent, the greater number bad--so he describes his epigrams; what opening is left after this for hostile criticism?
8894	Can you tell us a story,he asks a guest,"of the twelve sorrows of Hercules, or how the Cyclops pulled Ulysses''leg?
8894	Did Cicero have anything to do with the editing of the unfinished poem?
8894	Did he ever, whether from a poisonous philtre or otherwise, lose his reason?
8894	How or why, if the matter was really as simple as this, did the traditional legend of the Empire grow up and extinguish the real facts?
8894	If so, which Cicero-- Marcus or Quintus?
8894	Then with a sudden sob the pageant ceases:--_ Ilia cantat, nos tacemus: quando ver venit meum?
8894	Unde ego sufficiam?
8894	What were art and letters to those who waited, from moment to moment, for the glory of the Second Coming?
8894	_ Quid nocti videtur in altisono Caeli clupeo?_ Senex.
8894	and why, in either case, is there no record of the fact in their correspondence, or in any writing of the period?
8894	why not rather make an end of life and labour?
8894	why weep and wail at death?
7525	Dicere cum conor curam tibi, Pamphila, cordis, Quid mi abs te quaeram? 7525 How far an illegal action which has had good results is justifiable?"
7525	In every discussion three things are the objects of inquiry,_ an sit_, Is it so? 7525 Quid faculam praefers, Phileros, qua nil opus nobis?
7525	Quod genus hoc hominum Saturno sancte create?
7525	Sed quid oculis rabere visa es derepente ar dentibus? 7525 Usque adeo nihil est quod nostra infantia caelum Hausit Aventinum, baca nutrita Sabina?"
7525	When will you learn to love?
7525	Why do you not, my son,he said,"why do you not live as others live?
7525	With our prince a fiddler,cries Juvenal,"what further disgrace remains?"
7525	_ Cetera quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes._Is the true end of poetry to occupy a vacant hour?
7525	_ O dimidiate Menander._By whom said?
7525	), and ROSCIUS, the comic actor( 120- 61?
7525	110. Who were the chief writers of encyclopaedias at Rome?
7525	112. Who were the greatest Latin scholars of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
7525	114. Who were the original inhabitants of Italy?
7525	14 The fourth book of the Odes(?).
7525	2, and the_ Unde et quo Catius?_ S. ii.
7525	201 Naevius dies(?).
7525	34 What instances do we find in Latin literature of the novel or romance?
7525	368):"Nam quid dissimulo, aut quae me ad maiora reservo?"
7525	383), from Catullus;_ et merito, quid enim...?_( ix.
7525	548(?).
7525	586(?).
7525	59 Livy born(?).
7525	61 Pliny the younger born(?).
7525	68. Who have been the most successful modern writers of Latin elegiac verse?
7525	7 Birth of Seneca(?).
7525	76 Asinius Pollio born(?).
7525	84 What were the main characteristics of the old Roman oratory?
7525	94. Who, in your opinion, are the nearest modern representatives of Horace, Lucilius, and Juvenal?
7525	A traveller, as they passed, observed,''Those men are pursuing Nero;''another asked,''Is there any news in town about Nero?''
7525	A very similar_ jeu d''esprit_ of PORCIUS LICINUS is quoted:"Custodes ovium, teneraeque propaginis agnûm, Quaeritis ignem?
7525	An ut matrona ornata phaleris pelagiis Tollat pedes indomita in strato extraneo?
7525	And what has he to say?
7525	And who so efficacious as the band of cultured poets whom he saw collecting round him?
7525	And why do the people imagine a vain thing?"
7525	And yet what gift can be greater than glory, praise, and immortality?
7525	Another freedman, C. JULIUS HYGINUS( 64 B.C.-16 A.D.?
7525	Are his ideas Christian?
7525	Are there indications that Horace set before him, as a satirist, the object of superseding Lucilius?
7525	As examples we may take--( 1) A mere iteration:"Why do the nations so furiously rage together?
7525	At what time did abridgments begin to be used at Rome?
7525	Besides two of the first order it produced several of the second rank Among these M. FURIUS BIBACULUS( 103- 29?
7525	But philosophy asks a yet further_ why?_ Why was Rome a conquering state?
7525	But philosophy asks a yet further_ why?_ Why was Rome a conquering state?
7525	Can it be that we are vanquished, not by war, but by reports?
7525	Can the same rules of quantity be applied to the Latin comedians as to the classical poets?
7525	Can this encomium be justified?
7525	Catullus born(?).
7525	Ciedimus esse deos?"
7525	Cur dextrae iungere dextram Non datur, et veras audire et reddere voces?"
7525	Cur vulnerari pateretur optime meritos de se milites?
7525	Cur?
7525	De Republica._ 52_ Pro Milone._ Lucretius dies(?).
7525	Did Latin vary in this respect at different periods?
7525	Did he rightly appreciate their relative value?
7525	Did the Romans require a more forcible style when the long iambic or the trochaic was employed?
7525	Do portents presage a combat?
7525	Do you observe how it is not the cessation of bodily anguish, but the necessity of chastening the expression of it that keeps him silent?
7525	Et enim ipsi di negare cui nil potuerunt, Hominem me denegare quis posset pati?
7525	For who can teach more earnestly or move more vehemently?
7525	Had the Romans any system of reporting?
7525	Has Livy this knowledge?
7525	Has this treatise a permanent philosophical value?
7525	Have any of the Horatian metres been used by other writers?
7525	His uncertainty is shown by his inability to answer many grave doubts, as: Why is the future revealed by presages?
7525	How could man have any knowledge of deity unless he partook of its nature?
7525	How did the study of Greek literature at Rome affect the vocabulary and syntax of the Latin language?
7525	How do you account for the short duration of the legitimate drama at Rome?
7525	How far did the Augustan poets consciously modify the Greek metres they adopted?
7525	How far did the greatest writers of the Empire understand the conditions under which they lived, and the various forces that acted around them?
7525	How far is he faithful to his authorities?
7525	How far is it to be considered truthful?
7525	How far is it true that Latin is deficient in abstract terms?
7525	How far is this criticism sound?
7525	How far is this difference suggestive of their respective national characters, and of radically distinct conceptions of art?
7525	How shall I speak of us as the flower of Greece?
7525	How was it that the plebeians gained equal rights with the patricians?
7525	How were such speeches preserved?
7525	Ibimus quaesitum: verum ne ipsi teneamur Formido: quid ago?
7525	If Lucan''s claim to the name of poet be disputed, what shall we say to the so- called poets of the Flavian age?
7525	If he remained away a year, who could tell whether his chance for the Consulship might not be irretrievably compromised?
7525	If not, is the ruler chance?
7525	If so, how did it differ at different epochs?
7525	If so, is that law a moral one?
7525	If such madmen''s counsel was to be accepted, why did we not flee with the crowd?
7525	In estimating, then, the value of Livy''s work, we must ask, How far did he possess the qualifications necessary for success?
7525	In what department of scholarship did they mostly labour, and why?
7525	In what particulars do the alcaic and sapphic metres of Horace differ from their Greek models?
7525	In what sense can Ennius rightly be called the father of Latin literature?
7525	In what sense can this assertion be justified?
7525	In what sense is it true that the intellectual progress of a nation is measured by its prose writers?
7525	Is it a sound criticism to call the Romans a nation of grammarians?
7525	Is it that you are afraid posterity will think the worse of you for having been a friend of mine?"
7525	Is the world governed by law?
7525	Is there any reason for thinking that it was once subjected to different rules?
7525	It begins with a discussion of the question, Why is Africa so full of these plagues?
7525	It involves two separate questions: first, a historical one which has only an antiquarian interest, Did the philosopher know the Apostle?
7525	It would be fairer to ask, which is the more poetical?
7525	Lucan had gained the prize in one for a laudation of Nero, 59 A.D.(?
7525	Lucretius born(?).
7525	Martial, indeed, alludes to Nero as a well- known type of crime:[ 42]"Quid Nerone peius?
7525	Monasterie quae sunto in eo mando... faciunt nummos Monasteriae faciant Saracenis bona acolhensa sine vexatione neque forcia: vendant sine vectigalia?
7525	NICANDER( 230 B.C.?
7525	Of whom said?
7525	On his replying, yes, my uncle said sharply,''Then why did you interrupt him?
7525	Perhaps at Naples a husband could be found for her?
7525	Pliny the elder born(?).
7525	Pulsus ego?
7525	Quid favor aut coetus, pleni quid honoribus anni Profuerant?
7525	Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?"
7525	Quid si non interdixem ne illuc fugitivum Mitteret ad se intro, sed magis eiiceret?
7525	Quid thermis melius Neronianis?"
7525	Quo Carchedonios optas ignes lnpideos Nisi ut scintilles?
7525	Quo margarita cara tribaca Indica?
7525	Second book of Propertius published(?).
7525	Shall I bestow that name on Spartans or Eleans?
7525	Shall I not carry home the spoil of the Persians?
7525	Still, all are not of this kind,_ e.g., Is virtue the end of man?_ is equally applicable to every human being, whatever his capacity.
7525	Such fundamental questions as"Whether law may be set aside for the purpose of saving the state?"
7525	The MS. reads_ An sit vita nihil, sed longam differat aetas?_ which has been changed to_ et longa?
7525	The MS. reads_ An sit vita nihil, sed longam differat aetas?_ which has been changed to_ et longa?
7525	The boy who is destined to greatness has now outgrown the nursery, and the great question arises, Is he to be sent to school?
7525	The first of these is AEMILIUS SCAURUS( 163- 90?
7525	The loftiness for which he is celebrated seems to be of expression rather than of thought,_ e.g._"Quid?
7525	The only poet of the time of Trajan who has reached us, but one of the greatest in Roman literature, is D. JUNIUS JUVENALIS( 46- 130?
7525	The question naturally arises, What led Juvenal to write poetry after being so long content with declamation?
7525	The question, Who were the earliest inhabitants of Italy?
7525	Third book of Propertius(?).
7525	This seemed to strike him; he cried out,''Have I then neither friend nor enemy?''
7525	To a splenetic acquaintance, out of humour with the world, he cries out,_ ecquando amabis_?
7525	To what periods of the life of Horace would you refer the composition of the Book of Epodes and the Books of Satires and Epistles?
7525	To which was it most nearly akin?
7525	To whom else have they been ascribed?
7525	To whom would Minerva, the patroness of his house, more willingly reveal the mysteries of her art?
7525	To whom would the goddesses who watch over studies listen so propitiously?
7525	Tu istuc M. Calidi nisi fingeres sic ageres?
7525	Ubi dolor?
7525	Ubi tua illa paulo ante sapiens virginali''modestia?
7525	Varus dies(= the poet of Cremona, mentioned in the ninth Eclogue[?]).
7525	Was he as fully appreciated in his own day as he is in ours?
7525	Was there anything analogous to our review system?
7525	Weakness and inconsistency are visible indeed in all Cicero''s letters; but who can imagine Caesar or Crassus writing such letters at all?
7525	What are our chief authorities for the old Roman religion?
7525	What are the chief peculiarities of the style of Tacitus?
7525	What are the different forms of the asclepiad metre in Horace?
7525	What are the main differences in Latin between the language and constructions of poetry and those of prose?
7525	What boots it to import these morals of ours into the temples, and to imagine what is good in God''s sight from the analogies of this sinful flesh?...
7525	What can be more natural than the transition from the praises of young Nero to Hannibal''s fine lament?
7525	What classical authorities exist for its history?
7525	What evidence with regard to Latin pronunciation can be gathered from the writings of Plautus and Terence?
7525	What has been the influence of Cicero on modern literature( 1) as a philosophical and moral teacher;( 2) as a stylist?
7525	What if the Persian bores through mountains, makes the sea invisible?
7525	What influence did the old Roman system have in repressing poetical ideas?
7525	What influence did the study of Virgil exercise( 1) on later Latin literature;( 2) on the Middle Ages;( 3) on the poetry of the eighteenth century?
7525	What is known of Nigidius Figulus, the Sextii, Valerius Soranus, and Apuleius as teachers of philosophic doctrine?
7525	What is known of Suevius, Pompeius Trogus, Salvius Julianus, Gaius, and Celsus?
7525	What is the origin of the gods?
7525	What is the permanent contribution to human progress given by Latin literature?
7525	What is the value of Horace as a literary critic?
7525	What methods of appraising literary work existed at Rome?
7525	What need to mention Lycurgus, those heroes handed down by history, whom no peril could appal?
7525	What new coinages were made by Cicero?
7525	What passages can you collect from Virgil, Horace, Tacitus, and Juvenal, showing their beliefs on the great questions of philosophy and religion?
7525	What remains of the writers on applied science do we possess?
7525	What so likely as that these men should have introduced their prisoner to one whose chief object was to find out truth?
7525	What sources of information were at Livy''s command in writing his history?
7525	What were the national deities of the Britons, and to which of the Roman deities were they severally made to correspond?
7525	What were the_ Collegia poetarum?_ In what connection are they mentioned?
7525	What were the_ Collegia poetarum?_ In what connection are they mentioned?
7525	What, for instance, can be more out of place than to bring to a close a discussion on farming by the sudden announcement of a hideous murder?
7525	What_ principles_ of spelling( if any), appear to be adopted by the best modern editors?
7525	When and where did this style of composition first become common?
7525	Which are the most important of the public, and which ef the private, orations of Cicero?
7525	Which is the more true?
7525	Which of the great periods of Greek literature had the most direct or lasting influence upon that of Rome?
7525	Which of the two would a man like Lucretius prefer?
7525	Who can fail in this to catch the tones of the Republic?
7525	Who can help resenting the unreality, when at Saguntum Jupiter guides an arrow into Hannibal''s body, which Juno immediately withdraws?
7525	Who could sing of wars so well as he who has so successfully waged them?
7525	Why seek we Heaven outside?"
7525	Yet on opening his short book of satires, one is strongly tempted to ask, What made the boy write them?
7525	Yet what can be more sublime, learned, matchless in every way, than the poems in which, giving up empire, he spent the privacy of his youth?
7525	[ 10] or when, at Cannae, Aeolus yields to the prayer of Juno and blinds the Romans by a whirlwind of dust?
7525	[ 1] Au vos consulere scitis, consulem facere nescitis?
7525	[ 20] After Plautus the most distinguished writer of comedy was STATIUS CAECILIUS( 219- 166?
7525	[ 20] GALBA( 180- 136 B.C.?)
7525	[ 30] In complaining of fate, he suddenly breaks off with the words:_ Fata a fando appellata aiunt; hoccine est recte fari?_ § 7.
7525	[ 42] When we read or write a history of Rome we ask, Why was it that Rome conquered the Samnites, the Carthaginians, the Etruscans?
7525	[ 44] Being thus without belief in a divine providence, how does Lucan govern the world?
7525	[ 47]"Who would have thought( he says) that from a poet of love I should have become a patriotic bard?"
7525	[ 48] why are the oracles, once so vocal, now silent?
7525	[ 50] This may be true; and yet, where is the poet that has succeeded in them?
7525	[ 56] Does a naval conflict take place?
7525	[ 57] Has the army to march across a desert?
7525	[ 60] from those of Augustus to the speech of Juno?
7525	[ 68] When the nymph Cymodoce rouses Aeneas to be on his guard against danger with the words"_ Vigilas ne deum gens?
7525	[ 74] What can be more truly statuesque?
7525	[ 81]_ Pindarici fontis qui non expalluit haustus.... An tragica desaevit et ampullatur in arte?_ Ep.
7525	_ Blandus_.--Shall I remind you of your mother''s command--"Either with your shield or on it?"
7525	_ Triarius_.--Are not Spartans ashamed to be conquered, not by blows but by rumours?
7525	_ quale sit_, of what kind is it?
7525	_ quid sit_, If so, what is it?
7525	and do men now dare to boast that our temples need no walls to guard them?
7525	cur denique fortunam periclitaretur, praesertim cum non minus esset imperatoris consilio superare quam gladio?"
7525	do you not see me?"
7525	ite huc: Quaeritis?
7525	of man?
7525	of the soul?
7525	or is it the weakness of his metrical treatment that Quintilian complains of?
7525	or shall I rehearse the countless battles of our ancestors, the cities they sacked, the nations they spoiled?
7525	praesertim cum ista eloquentia alienorum hominum pericula defendere acerrime soleas, tuum negligeres?
7525	sacris exculta quid artibus aetas?
7525	to Valerius Flaccus, Silius, Statius, and Martial?
7525	to whom was such sweetness ever given?
7525	ubi ardor animi, qui etiam ex infantium ingeniis elicere voces et querelas solet?
7525	v. 36 Cornelius Severus(?)
7525	whether I ought to die rather than become a slave?
7525	whether evil can hurt the good man?
7525	whether it be enough to will what is good?
7525	whether life begins here or after death?
7525	whether virtue is made greater by success?
7525	why these never- ceasing wars?
7525	why was her cult of abstract deities a worship of the letter which never rose to a spiritual idea?