Word: ciceros
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ameis' Iliad, Books X. to XV., for Greek III, is ready. Also Cicero's Tusculanian Disputations for Latin...
...universities is four years and they are modeled after the German universities. In 1811 Greek was introduced as an elective. The gymnasia carry the scholars about as far as the sophomore class of our better American colleges. The course in Greek and Latin during the last year is, Cicero's Tusculanian Disputations, Odes and Satires of Horace, selections from Demosthenes and Thucydides, at least two tragedies of Sophocles, and Plato's Apology and Crito. Most examinations are oral both in the gymnasia and the universities. The universities comprise four departments, the law, medicine, historical philological, and the physical, mathematical...
...atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such as a dialogue of Plato, an oration of Demosthenes, a tragedy of Sophocles, or a book of Homer, or at least a letter of Cicero, an ode of Horace, or a book of Virgil to quiet the fevered spirit...
...treasures which the Library contains the "Codex Vaticanus," or the "Bible of the End of the Fourth or Beginning of the Fifth Century," in Greek, and containing the oldest authentic version of the Septuagint and the first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov red by Cardinal Mai, under a version of St. Augustine's "Commentary on the Psalms," is considered the oldest Latin manuscript extant. The large "Hebrew Bible," in folio, from the library of the duke of Urbino, is interesting from its historical associations, the Jews...
Senior recitation in Moral Philosophy. Professor: "What is an act of will called?" Senior: "A volition, from volo, I will." Professor: "Exactly. Cicero says: 'Voluntas est, quoe quid cum ratione desiderat.' What is that?" Senior (triumphantly): "That is Latin, sir." - [Cynic...