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Bonus et quietus et bonus.

Caesar, in Cicero’s Ad Atticum 10.8b: Postremo quid viro bono et quieto et bono civi magis convenit quam abesse a civilibus controversiis? Finally, what is more appropriate for a good man, a good and quiet citizen, than to absent himself from civil quarrels? Caesar is trying to convince Cicero here not to get involved in […]

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2011 11 07 Muke Latin Comments (1)

"Absistere" in Caesar.

Caesar, invading Britain in 54 BC (De Bello Gallico 5.17): Sed meridie, cum Caesar pabulandi causa tres legiones atque omnem equitatum cum C. Trebonio legato misisset, repente ex omnibus partibus ad pabulatores advolaverunt, sic uti ab signis legionibusque non absisterent. But at noon, when Caesar had sent three legions and the whole cavalry to forage […]

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2008 05 05 Muke Latin Comments (0)