(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 […]