The civil wars of Rome: select lives tr. with notes by G. Long

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第 230 頁 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
第 234 頁 - His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you And to your heirs forever, common pleasures, To walk abroad and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! When comes such another? 1. Pleb. Never, never! Come, away, away! We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors
第 152 頁 - The honours and favours which Brutus had received from Caesar dulled him towards attempting of his own proper motion the overthrow of the monarchical power; for not only was his life saved at the battle of Pharsalus after the rout of Pompeius, and many of his friends also at his entreaty, but besides this he had great credit with Caesar.
第 155 頁 - ... that Calpurnia was in a deep slumber, but was uttering indistinct words and inarticulate groans in the midst of her sleep; and indeed she was dreaming that she held her murdered husband in her arms and was weeping over him. Others say this was not the vision that Calpurnia had, but the following: there was attached to Caesar's house...
第 152 頁 - Marullus, went up to them and pulled off the diadems, and, having discovered those who had been the first to salute Caesar as king, they led them off' to prison. The people followed, clapping their hands and calling the tribunes Bruti, because it was Brutus who put down the kingly power and placed the sovereignty in the Senate and people instead of its being in the hands of one man. Caesar, being irritated at this, deprived Flavius and Marullus of their office, and while rating them he also insulted...
第 96 頁 - Again in Spain, when he had some leisure and was reading the history of Alexander,* he was for a long time in deep thought, and at last burst into tears ; and on his friends asking the reason of this, he said, " Don't you think it is a matter for sorrow, that Alexander was king of so many nations at such an early age, and I have as yet done nothing of note?
第 152 頁 - On this occasion many of the young nobles and magistrates run through the city without their toga, and for sport and to make laughter strike those whom they meet with strips of hide that have the hair on; many women of rank also purposely put themselves in the way and present i 2 their hands to be struck like children at school, being persuaded that this is favourable to easy parturition for those who are pregnant, and to conception for those who are barren.
第 150 頁 - Rostra, and when the consuls and praetors approached with all the Senate behind them, without rising from his seat, but just as if he were transacting business with private persons, he answered that the honours required rather to be contracted than enlarged. This annoyed not the Senate only, but the people also, who considered that the State was insulted in the persons of the Senate; and those who were not obliged to stay went away forthwith with countenance greatly downcast, so that...
第 156 頁 - ... when they are taking their seats, to be gone now and to come again, when Calpurnia shall have had better dreams, what may we not expect to be said by those who envy you? or who will listen to your friends when they say that this is not slavery and tyranny; but if, he continued, you are full}' resolved to consider the day inauspicious, it is better for you to go yourself and address the Senate and then to adjourn the business.
第 111 頁 - Eoman supremacy beyond the inhabited world. After twice crossing over to the island from the opposite coast of Gaul, and worsting the enemy in many battles rather than advantaging his own men, for there was nothing worth taking from men who lived so wretched a life and were so poor, he brought the war to a close not such as he wished, but taking hostages from the king and imposing a tribute, he retired from the island. On his return he found letters which were just going to cross (Thames) in face...

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