Word: ciceroism
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...Latin-The translation at sight of average passages from Cicero and Virgil...
Latin 5 has begun the third book of Cicero's "De Finibus...
Members of Latin 5 are now reading Cicero de Finibus...
...time and labor. A pressing need at Harvard, therefore, is that a special course should be given by either the department of Philosophy or of the Political Sciences, which shall present a critical and historical exposition of the political theories of Plato and Aristotle among the Greeks, of Cicero's "Republic," of the early doctrine of the Church as expounded by St. Augustine and by Thomas Aquinas, of Dante and Machiavelli, of Grotius, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Spinoza, Locke and Hobbs, and the more modern theories of such writers as Hegel, Lieber, Humboldt, Bluntschli, Waitz, Spencer, Bagehot and Mulford, with perhaps...
...languages of German, French, Italian and Spanish; why not in Greek and Latin? The days of reasoning a language into hard, narrow rules and set ways of translating are over, and it will soon be possible for the average man of the world to take up his Homer or Cicero and read them with as much zest and as little trouble as he does the latest French novel or the most recent German pamphlet on philosophy...