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Those actions have much more grace and lustre, that slip from the hand of him that does them, negligently and without noise, and that some honest man thereafter finds out and raises from the shade, to produce it to the light upon its own account, "Mihi quidem laudabiliora videntur omnia, quae sine venditatione, et sine populo teste fiunt," Cicero, Tusc.
The Greek word cithara is not used by Cicero and does not become common in Latin prose till long after Cicero's time, though he several times uses the words citharoedus, citharista, when referring to Greek professional players. The word lyra too is rare in early prose; it occurs in Tusc. 1, 4 in connection with a Greek, where in the same sentence fides is used as an equivalent.
Both dirus and diritas are rare in Cicero; the former word does not once occur in the whole range of the speeches, the latter scarcely excepting here and in Vat. 9; in Tusc. 3, 29 Cic. uses it in translating from Euripides.
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice: "Nec me pudet, ut istos fateri nescire, quod nesciam;" Cicero, Tusc. I should not speak so boldly, if it were my due to be believed; and so I told a great man, who complained of the tartness and contentiousness of my exhortations.
So that, when the order of Druids was suppressed by the Emperors, it was rather from a dread of an influence incompatible with the Roman government than from any dislike of their religious opinions. Lib. I. Tit. ii. De Origine et Progressu Juris, § 6. Cic. Tusc. Quest. Lib. See this point in the Divine Legation of Moses.
Lucullus, 2; de Fin. i. 1-3; Tusc Quæst. ii. 1, 2; iii. 2; v. 2; de Legg. i. 22-24; de Off. ii. 2; de Orat. 41, etc. Middleton's Life, vol. ii. p. 254. Ad Quinct. fratr. iii. 3. Tusc. Quæst, v. 2. De Off. i. 5. init.
The end of the epitaph is omitted here as in Tusc. 1, 117, but is given in Tusc. 1, 34 cur? volito vivas per ora virum. Notice the alliteration. ISQUE: cf. n. on 13 vixitque. AUT OPTANDUS AUT NULLUS: cf. 66 aut neglegenda ... aut optanda; nullus almost = non as in 67, but only in the Letters does Cic. Att. 11, 24, 4 Philotimus nullus venit.
Shall it be of ignorance, simplicity, and facility; or of malice and imposture? Is any man now living so impudent as to think himself comparable to them in virtue, piety, learning, judgment, or any kind of perfection? "Qui, ut rationem nullam afferrent, ipsa auctoritate me frangerent." Cicero, Tusc.
There was, methinks, something in the virtue of this man too sprightly and fresh to stop there; I believe that, without doubt, he felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action, and was more pleased in it than in any other of his life: "Sic abiit a vita, ut causam moriendi nactum se esse gauderet." Cicero, Tusc.
In the town of Castelnaudari, fifty heretic Albigeois at one time suffered themselves to be burned alive in one fire rather than they would renounce their opinions. "Quoties non modo ductores nostri, sed universi etiam exercitus, ad non dubiam mortem concurrerunt?" Cicero, Tusc.
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