(51 BCE) De Re Public Book 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Latin)
Book III (3) et vehiculis tarditati, eademque cum accepisset homines inconditis vocibus inchoatum quiddam et confusum sonantes, incidit has et distinxit in partis, et ut signa quaedam sic verba rebus inpressit, hominesque antea dissociatos iucundissimo inter se sermonis vinculo conligavit. a simili etiam mente vocis qui videbantur infiniti soni paucis notis inventis sunt omnes signati […]
(51 BCE) De Re Public Book 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero (English)
Book III [Four or eight pages wanting.] II. * * * * The intelligent principle having found man endowed with the faculty of uttering rude and imperfect sounds, enabled him to separate and distinguish them into articulations. Thus words were affixed to things as signs of them, and man, once solitary, became united to man, by the sweet bond […]
(51 BCE) De Re Public Book 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Latin)
Book II (*) (1) tate audiendi, ingressus est sic loqui Scipio: ‘Catonis hoc senis est, quem ut scitis unice dilexi maximeque sum admiratus, cuique vel patris utriusque iudicio vel etiam meo studio me totum ab adulescentia dedidi; cuius me numquam satiare potuit oratio; tantus erat in homine usus rei publicae, quam et domi et militiae […]
(51 BCE) De Re Public Book 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero (English)
G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, Esq. BOOK II. I. Perceiving them all now eager to listen to him, Scipio thus began to speak. “It was old Cato, to whom as you know I was singularly attached, and whom I admired in the highest degree: to whom, either through the advice of both my parents, or from my […]
(51 BCE) De Re Public Book 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Latin)
Book I (1) petu liberavissent, nec C. Duelius A. Atilius L. Metellus terrore Karthaginis, non duo Scipiones oriens incendium belli Punici secundi sanguine suo restinxissent, nec id excitatum maioribus copiis aut Q. Maximus enervavisset, aut M. Marcellus contudisset, aut a portis huius urbis avolsum P. Africanus compulisset intra hostium moenia. M. vero Catoni homini ignoto […]
(51 BCE) De Re Public Book 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero (English)
BOOK I I. For without the strong feeling of patriotism, neither had G. Duelius, Aulus Atilius or L. Metellus freed us from the terror of Carthage; or the two Scipios extinguished with their blood the rising flame of the second punic war. Quintus Maximus would not have weakened, nor M. Marcellus have crushed the one […]
(1270) Sólarljóð (Old Norse)
Sólarljóð The poem is sometimes included in various editions of the Poetic Edda, it has several elements that are clearly Christian and other elements that are Forn Seðr. 1. Fé ok fjörvi rænti fyrða kind sá hinn grimmi Greppr;yfir þá vegu, er hann varðaði, náði engi kvikr komask. 2. Einn hann át oft harðla, aldri […]
(1270) Sólarljóð (English)
Sólarljóð The poem is sometimes included in various editions of the Poetic Edda, it has several elements that are clearly Christian and other elements that are Forn Seðr. 1. Of life and property a fierce freebooter despoiled mankind; over the ways beset by him might no one living pass. 2. Alone he ate most frequently, […]
(1270) Gróttasöngr (Old Norse)
Gróttasöngr Edda Sæmundar hinns frôða – The Edda of Sæmund the Learned. From the Old Norse or Icelandic with an Index of Person and Places. Part II by Benjamin Thrope. Skjöldr hét sonr Óðins, er Skjöldungar er frá komnir. Hann hafði atsetu ok réð löndum, þar sem nú er kölluð Danmörk, en þá var kallat […]
(1270) Gróttasöngr (English)
Gróttasöngr Edda Sæmundar hinns frôða – The Edda of Sæmund the Learned. From the Old Norse or Icelandic with an Index of Person and Places. Part II by Benjamin Thrope. Skjöldr was a son of Odin from whom the Skjöldungs are descended. He had his residence in and ruled the land that is now called […]