Course Hero - We put you ahead of the curve!

You have requested the below document.

Coursehero >> Canada >> University of Toronto >> CLA 160

the From 2nd Philippic, Cicero. Translated by C. D. Yonge Accuse the senate; accuse the equestrian body, which at that time was united with the senate; accuse every order of society, and all the citizens, as long as you confess that this assembly at this very moment is besieged by Ityrean1 soldiers. It is not so much a proof of audacity to advance these statements so impudently, as of utter want of sense to be unable to see their contradictory nature. For what is more insane than, after you yourself have taken up arms to do mischief to the republic, to reproach another with having taken them up to secure its safety? On one occasion you attempted even to be witty. O ye good gods, how little did that attempt suit you! And yet you are a little to be blamed for your failure in that instance, too. For you might have got some wit from your wife, who was an actress. "Arms to the gown must yield." Well, have they not yielded? But afterwards the gown yielded to your arms. Let us inquire then whether it was better for the arms of wicked men to yield to the freedom of the Roman people, or that our liberty should yield to your arms. Nor will I make any further reply to you about the verses. I will only say briefly that you do not understand them, nor any other literature whatever. That I have never at any time been wanting to the claims that either the republic or my friends had upon me; but nevertheless that in all the different sorts of composition on which I have employed myself, during my leisure hours, I have always endeavoured to make my labours and my writings such as to be some advantage to our youth, and some credit to the Roman name. But, however, all this has nothing to do with the present occasion. Let us consider more important matters. You have said that Publius Clodius was slain by my contrivance. What would men have thought if he had been slain at the time when you pursued him in the forum with a drawn sword, in the sight of all the Roman people; and when you would have settled his business if he had not thrown himself up the stairs of a bookseller's shop, and, shutting them against you, checked your attack by that means? And I confess that at that time I favoured you, but even you yourself do not say that I had advised your attempt. But as for Milo, it was not possible even for me to favour his action. For he had finished the business before any one could suspect that he was going to do it. Oh, but I advised it. I suppose Milo was a man of such a disposition that he was not able to do a service to the republic if he had not some one to advise him to do it. But I rejoiced at it. Well, suppose I did; was I to be the only sorrowful person in the city, when every one else was in such delight? Although that inquiry into the death of Publius Clodius was not instituted with any great wisdom. For what was the reason for having a new law to inquire into the conduct of the man who had slain him, when there was a form of inquiry already established by the laws? However, an inquiry was instituted. And have you now been found, so many years afterwards, to say a thing which, at the time that the affair was under discussion, no one ventured to say against me? But as to the assertion that you have dared to make, and that at great length too, that it was by my means that Pompeius was alienated from his friendship with C sar, and that on that account it was my fault that the civil war was originated; in that you have not erred so much in the main facts, as (and that is of the greatest importance) in the times. ------- But these are all old stories now. This charge, however, is quite a modern one, that C sar was slain by my contrivance. I am afraid, O conscript fathers, lest I should appear to you to have brought up a sham accuser against myself (which is a most disgraceful thing to do); a man not only to distinguish me by the praises which are my due, but to load me also with those which do not belong to me. For who ever heard my name mentioned as an accomplice in that most glorious action? and whose name has been concealed who was in the number of that gallant band? Concealed, do I say? Whose name was there which was not at once made public? I should sooner say that some men had boasted in order to appear to have been concerned in that conspiracy, though they had in reality known nothing of it, than that any one who had been an accomplice in it could have wished to be concealed. Moreover, how likely it is, that among such a number of men, some obscure, some young men who had not the wit to conceal any one, my name could possibly have escaped notice! Indeed, if leaders were wanted for the purpose of delivering the country, what need was there of my instigating the Bruti, one of whom saw every day in his house the image of Lucius Brutus, and the other saw also the image of Ahala? Were these the men to seek counsel from the ancestors of others rather than from their own? and out of doors rather than at home? What? Caius Cassius, a man of that family which could not endure, I will not say the domination, but even the power of any individual,--he, I suppose, was in need of me to instigate him? a man who, even without assistance the of these other most illustrious men, would have accomplished this same deed in Cilicia, at the mouth of the river Cydnus, if C sar had brought his ships to that bank of the river which he had intended, and not to the opposite one. Was Cn us Domitius spurred on to seek to recover his dignity, not by the death of his father, a most illustrious man, nor by the death of his uncle, nor by the deprivation of his own dignity, but by my advice and authority? Did I persuade Caius Trebonius? a man whom I should not have ventured even to advise. On which account the republic owes him even a larger debt of gratitude, because he preferred the liberty of the Roman people to the friendship of one man, and because he preferred overthrowing arbitrary power to sharing it. Was I the instigator whom Lucius Tillius Cimber followed? a man whom I admired for having performed that action, rather than ever expected that he would perform it; and I admired him on this account, that he was unmindful of the personal kindnesses which he had received, but mindful of his country. What shall I say of the two Servilii? Shall I call them Cascas, or Ahalas? and do you think that those men were instigated by my authority rather than by their affection for the republic? It would take a long time to go through all the rest; and it is a glorious thing for the republic that they were so numerous, and a most honourable thing also for themselves. ---However, remark the stupidity of this fellow,--I should rather say, of this brute beast. For thus he spoke:--"Marcus Brutus, whom I name to do him honour, holding aloft his bloody dagger, called upon Cicero, from which it must be understood that he was privy to the action." Am I then called wicked by you because you suspect that I suspected something; and is he who openly displayed his reeking dagger, named by you that you may do him honour? Be it so. Let this stupidity exist in your language: how much greater is it in your actions and opinions! Arrange matters in this way at last, O consul; pronounce the cause of the Bruti, of Caius Cassius, of Cn us Domitius, of Caius Trebonius and the rest to be whatever you please to call it: sleep off that intoxication of yours, sleep it off and take breath. Must one apply a torch to you to waken you while you are sleeping over such an important affair? Will you never understand that you have to decide whether those men who performed that action are homicides or assertors of freedom? ------------------------------ Catullus, translated by A. S. Kline poem 5 Let us live, my Lesbia, let us love, and all the words of the old, and so moral, may they be worth less than nothing to us! Suns may set, and suns may rise again: but when our brief light has set, night is one long everlasting sleep. Give me a thousand kisses, a hundred more, another thousand, and another hundred, and, when we've counted up the many thousands, confuse them so as not to know them all, so that no enemy may cast an evil eye, by knowing that there were so many kisses. poem 85 I hate and love. And why I do, perhaps you ask. I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented. ---------------------------------------------- from Lucretius, de rerum natura, bk. 1 translator William Ellery Leonard Whilst human kind Throughout the lands lay miserably crushed Before all eyes beneath Religion- who Would show her head along the region skies, Glowering on mortals with her hideous faceA Greek it was who first opposing dared Raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand, Whom nor the fame of Gods nor lightning's stroke Nor threatening thunder of the ominous sky Abashed; but rather chafed to angry zest His dauntless heart to be the first to rend The crossbars at the gates of Nature old. And thus his will and hardy wisdom won; And forward thus he fared afar, beyond The flaming ramparts of the world, until He wandered the unmeasurable All. Whence he to us, a conqueror, reports What things can rise to being, what cannot, And by what law to each its scope prescribed, Its boundary stone that clings so deep in Time. Wherefore Religion now is under foot, And us his victory now exalts to heaven. I know how hard it is in Latian verse To tell the dark discoveries of the Greeks, Chiefly because our pauper-speech must find Strange terms to fit the strangeness of the thing; Yet worth of thine and the expected joy Of thy sweet friendship do persuade me on To bear all toil and wake the clear nights through, Seeking with what of words and what of song I may at last most gloriously uncloud For thee the light beyond, wherewith to view The core of being at the centre hid. And for the rest, summon to judgments true, Unbusied ears and singleness of mind Withdrawn from cares; lest these my gifts, arranged For thee with eager service, thou disdain Before thou comprehendest: since for thee I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters all, and whither she resolves Each in the end when each is overthrown. This ultimate stock we have devised to name Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things, Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.

Find millions of documents here - Study Guides, Homework Solutions, Papers, Exam Answer Keys and more. Course Hero has millions of course related materials that will enable you to learn better, faster and get an A in all your courses.
Below is a small sample set of documents:

Simone Chambers Review
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 200 Spring, 2008

POL 103 Notes
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
exercise answers, fall 2006
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
100-07-08 instructions for the first essay
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
Logic test 2006
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
100-07-08 term test with answers
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
PHL 100 syllabus
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
100-07-08 What is philosophy
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
100-07-08 Defining and Identifying Arguments and their Parts
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
100-07-08 Evaluating Deductive Arguments
Path: University of Toronto >> PHL >> 100 Spring, 2008
State.definition.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
Differentiation.Rights.Charts.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
Regime.types.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
Ideology.tables.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
wvs.charts.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
VARIETIES OF POL REGIMES
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
const.charts.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
charter.chart.wd
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
exec.bureaucracy.wp
Path: University of Toronto >> POL >> 103 Spring, 2008
flaviansbeyond.08.
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
splitfall.08
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
jul-claud.08.
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
empire architecture
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
LITERATURE EMPIRE.08
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
augustus..08
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
THIRD CENTURY CRISIS
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
EMPIRE RELIGION.08
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
CLA SYLLIBUS
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
IN CLASS ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
Etruscans and early Rome.08
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
hell.phil.science
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
Caesar and Civil War.08
Path: University of Toronto >> CLA >> 160 Spring, 2008
Supplier_Manual_RevC
Path: Fairfield >> IS >> 100 Spring, 2008
Chapter 7
Path: Fairfield >> ACC >> 011 Spring, 2008
Chapter 5 Qs
Path: Stetson >> BIO >> 152.01 Spring, 2008
January27HistoryNotes
Path: Stetson >> HISTORY >> 101.03 Spring, 2008
History Notes Chapter 4
Path: Stetson >> HISTORY >> 101.03 Spring, 2008
educationC5
Path: Stetson >> EDUCATION >> 245.02 Spring, 2008
FOLquestions
Path: Stetson >> BIO >> 152.01 Spring, 2008
Notes for Movie
Path: Stetson >> ENGLISH >> 121.21 Spring, 2008
Chapter 17 Qs
Path: Stetson >> BIO >> 152.01 Spring, 2008
Environmental Biology Notes
Path: Stetson >> BIO >> 152.01 Spring, 2008
bionotes2
Path: Stetson >> BIO >> 152.01 Spring, 2008
TheDeadPoetsSociety
Path: Stetson >> EDUCATION >> 245.02 Spring, 2008
Assignment 3 - Context Diagram & Requirements - KEY
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 230 Fall, 2008
Instructor%20Notes%20-%20Differences%20in%20Entities
Path: Purdue >> MGMT >> 200T Fall, 2008
Quiz3Key
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 230 Fall, 2008
Quiz4Key
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 230 Fall, 2008
Quiz2Key
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 230 Fall, 2008
Quiz1Key
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 230 Fall, 2008
controlchartsspr07
Path: Purdue >> STAT >> 301T Fall, 2008
Instructor%20Notes%20-%20Individual%20Income%20Tax
Path: Purdue >> MGMT >> 200T Fall, 2008
Solutions%20to%20Suggested%20Homework%20Problems
Path: Purdue >> MGMT >> 200T Fall, 2008
Assignment 7 - Conceptual Class Diagram - KEY-1
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 280 Fall, 2008
TextFileReadWrite
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 295 Fall, 2008
exam3Spring08StudyGuide
Path: Purdue >> STAT >> 301T Fall, 2008
UsingNetBeans
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 295 Fall, 2008
ProportionControlChartFall06
Path: Purdue >> STAT >> 301T Fall, 2008
hw9Spring08Answers
Path: Purdue >> STAT >> 301T Fall, 2008
Assignment 8 - System Sequence and Statechart - KEY
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 280 Fall, 2008
hw6Spring08Answers
Path: Purdue >> STAT >> 301T Fall, 2008
Assignment 6 - Use Case Narrative - KEY
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 280 Fall, 2008
Mid%20Term%20Exam%20Study%20Guide
Path: Purdue >> MGMT >> 200T Fall, 2008
Corporate%20Tax%20Example
Path: Purdue >> MGMT >> 200T Fall, 2008
Final%20Exam%20Study%20Guide
Path: Purdue >> MGMT >> 200T Fall, 2008
Assignment 4 - Activity Diagram - KEY
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 280 Fall, 2008
CIT 280_Assign1
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 280 Fall, 2008
CIT 280_Assign2
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 280 Fall, 2008
Lab04CodeFragments
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 295 Fall, 2008
NBServerFaces
Path: Purdue >> CIT >> 295 Fall, 2008