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Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome, books 1-10 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge), THE NINTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE NINTH PHILIPPIC., chapter 2 (search)
Lar Tolumnius, the king of Veii, slew
four ambassadors of the Roman people, at Fidenae, whose statues were standing in
the rostra till within my recollection. The honor was well deserved. For our
ancestors gave those men who had encountered death in the cause of the republic
an imperishable memory in exchange for this transitory life. We see in the
rostra the statue of Cnaeus Octavius, an illustrious and great man, the first
man who brought the consulship into that family, which afterward abounded in
illustrious men. There was no one then who envied him, because he was a new man;
there was no one who did not honor his virtue. But yet the embassy of Octavius
was one in which there was no suspicion of danger. For having been sent by the
senate to investigate the dispositions of kings an