Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline: With Notices, Notes and Complete Vocabulary
Marcus Tullius Cicero, ' the greatest name Birm in Roman literature, was born near Arpinum, a town of Latium, January 3rd, b.c. 106. His father, a man of large views and liberal culture, belonged to the equiles, and possessed an hereditary estate in the neighbourhood of the town. To give his sons, Mar cus and Quintus, that education which could not be obtained at a provincial school, he removed to Rome, Remove: a. Where the young Ciceros were placed under the best teachers of the day. From Aelius they learned philosophy; from Archias, the mechanism of verse, Early though not the inspiration of poetry. A translation 'm'um of the lnomma and Prognostic: of Aratus, and a Ea/rly or, mythological poem on the fable of Pontz'us Glaucus were the first fruits of Cicero' s genius. On assuming Assume, m.
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