Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volumen4

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Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770
 

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Página 315 - THOU COMEST (FOR COME I KNOW THOU WILT), I AM CYRUS, THE FOUNDER OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE, ENVY ME NOT THE LITTLE EARTH THAT COVERS MY BODY.
Página 366 - Saying this, he approached the doors of the treasury, and as the keys were not produced, he sent for workmen to break them open. Metellus opposed him again, and some praised his .firmness; but Caesar, raising his voice, threatened to put him to death if he gave him any farther trouble: — " And, young man," said he, "you are not ignorant that this is harder for me to say than to do...
Página 395 - What is still more extraordinary, many report that a certain soothsayer forewarned him of a great danger which threatened him on the ides of March, and that when the day was come, as he was going to the senate-house, he called to the soothsayer, and said, laughing, "The ides of March are come"; to which he answered, softly, "Yes; but they are not gone.
Página 145 - He was empowered also to choose out of the senators fifteen lieutenants to act under him ; he was to take from the quaestors, and other public receivers, what money he pleased, and equip a fleet of 200 sail.

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