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by my own fault, not
yours. But just as gluttonsSimilarly
Holmes (Poet at the
Breakfast Table, p. 108) of the poet: “He takes a
bite out of the sunny side of this and the other, and ever stimulated
and never satisfied,” etc. Cf. Lucian, Demosth.
Encom. 18, Julian
Orat. ii. p. 69 c, Polyb. iii. 57. 7. snatch at
every dish that is handed along and taste it before they have properly
enjoyed the preceding, so I, methinks, before finding the first object of
our inquiry—what justice is—let go of that and set out
to consider something about it, namely whether it is vice and ignorance or
wisdom and virtue; and again, when later the view was sprung upon us that
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge), THE FOURTEEN ORATIONS OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS, CALLED PHILIPPICS., chapter 8 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK IV, chapter 42 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK VI, chapter 8 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK VI, chapter 51 (search)
And so died
Tiberius, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. Nero was his father, and he
was on both sides descended from the Claudian house, though his mother
passed by adoption, first into the Livian, then into the Julian family. From
earliest infancy, perilous vicissitudes were his lot. Himself an exile, he
was the companion of a proscribed father, and on being admitted as a stepson
into the house of Augustus, he had to struggle with many rivals, so long as
Marcellus and Agrippa and, subsequently, Caius and Lucius Cæsar were
in their glory. Again his brother Drusus enjoyed in a greater degree the
affection of the citizens. But he was more than ever on dangerous ground
after his marriage with Julia, whether he tolerated or escaped from his
wife's profligacy. On his return from Rhodes he ruled the emperor's now heirless house for twelve years, and the Roman
world, with absolute sway, for about twenty-three. His character too had its
distinct periods. It was a bright time