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Then frequens comes to be used of actions or events that often recur; e.g. Orat. 15 Demosthenes frequens Platonis auditor; De Or. 1, 243 frequens te audivi. On the use of the adj. here see A. 191; G. 324, Rem. 6; H. 443. ULTRO: 'unasked', 'of my own motion', a reference to the well-known story that, whatever subject was discussed, Cato gave as his opinion 'delenda est Carthago'. See Introd.
Personal appearance, cf. Decentior quam sublimior. Well proportioned, rather than tall. Nihil metus. Nothing to inspire fear in his countenance. Antith. to gratia supererat: kindness of expression rather prevailed. So Gr. and R. For this sense of metus, see note G. 2: ob metum. Medio aetatis. We should hardly say so of a man dying at 56. But in Dial. de Clar. Orat.
It would seem also that ravished women had the option of deciding whether their seducers should marry them or be put to death see the vitiatarum electiones as mentioned by Tacitus, Dial. de Orat., 35.
But there was at any rate an epoch when the dominion of Rome over Italy demanded a certain knowledge of the language of the country on the part of Romans of rank. The employment of the lyre in ritual is attested by Cicero de Orat. iii. 51, 197; Tusc. iv. 2, 4; Dionysius, vii. 72; Appian, Pun. 66; and the inscription in Orelli, 2448, comp. 1803. Macrob. Tusc. i. 2, 3; iv. 2, 3; Varro ap. Serv.
Hence, aliud agens, which implies that they were too busy with something else of a private nature, to give much attention to public affairs or the concerns of their neighbors. Populus and vulgus are brought together in a similar way, Dial. de Clar. Orat. 7: Vulgus quoque imperitum et tunicatus hic populus, etc. Nobis ausim. Ceterum. But.
It is remarkable that some authors attempted to account for the invention of the Asiatic style, on the same principle we have here adduced to account for Cicero's adoption of it in Latin; viz. that the Asiatics had a defective knowledge of Greek, and devised phrases, etc., to make up for the imperfection of their scanty vocabulary. See Quinct. xii. 10. De clar. Orat. 72.
"Weston-super-Mare. "Sunday night, 20th Feb., 1881. "My dear Anna, "Many thanks for your kind interest in the approval of my writings. "I have come to a pause in another matter. My Libyan dictionary is as complete as I can make it.... What next? I ask myself; for to be idle is soon to be miserable. I do not quite say with Clough, 'Qui laborat, orat' No!
Orat. 93, his negative panegyric on his own oratorical attainments. Orat. 29. Tusc. Quæst. i. 1; de clar. Orat. 82, etc., de opt. gen. dicendi. Quinct. x. 1. De Fin. iii. 1 and 4; Lucull. 6. Plutarch, in Vitâ.
Dialog. de Orat. 20 apud Tacit. and 22. Quinct. x. 2. "It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their master." Johnson. We have before compared Cicero to Addison as regards the purpose of inspiring their respective countrymen with literary taste. They resembled each other in the return they experienced. Dialog. 18. Ibid.
Pro Arch. 11, 12, ad Fam. v. 21, vi. 21. He seems to have fallen into some misconceptions of Aristotle's meaning. De Invent. i. 35, 36, ii. 14; see Quinct. Inst. v. 14. De Invent. i. 7, ii. 51, et passim; ad. Fam. i. 9; de Orat. ii. 36. De Off. i. 1; de Fin. iv. 5. De Fin. ii. 21, iii. 1; de Legg. i. 13; de Orat. iii. 17; ad Fam. xiii. 1; pro Sext. 10. De Nat. Deor. i. 4; Tusc.
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