Questions and exercises for classical scholarships

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Page 89 - SKI» non in Caesare tantum Nomen erat , nec fama ducis : sed nescia virtus Stare loco; solusque pudor, non vincere bello. Acer, et indomitus ; quo spes , quoque ira vocasset , Ferre manum , et nunquam temerando parcere ferro Successus urgere suos : instare favori Numinis : impellens quidquid sibi summa petenti Obstaret; gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.
Page 6 - The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.1 What is bought with money is purchased by labour, as much as what we acquire by the toil of our own body.
Page 87 - Donasti, Lupe, rus sub urbe nobis; sed rus est mihi maius in fenestra. rus hoc dicere, rus potes vocare? in quo ruta facit nemus Dianae, argutae tegit ala quod cicadae, quod formica die comedit uno, clusae cui folium rosae corona est; in quo non magis invenitur herba quam Cosmi folium piperve crudum; in quo nee cucumis iacere rectus nee serpens habitare tota possit.
Page 111 - In hoc viro tanta vis animi ingeniique fuit ut quocumque loco natus esset, fortunam sibi ipse facturus fuisse videretur.
Page 123 - The value of the book for educational purposes consists not so much in its positive results, as in the fact that it opens a vein of thought which the student may usefully follow out to any extent for himself, and that it affords an instructive example of a thoughtful, scientific, and in the best sense academical style of treating political questions.
Page 114 - Adeo in illis quoque est aliqua vitiosa imitatio, quorum ars omnis constat imitatione. 92 Est autem gestus ille maxime communis, quo medius digitus in pollicem contrahitur explicitis tribus, et principiis utilis cum leni in utramque partem motu modice prolatus, simul capite atque humeris sensim ad id, quo manus feratur, obsecundantibus, et in narrando certus, sed turn paulo productior, et in exprobrando et coarguendo acer atque instans, longius enim partibus his et liberius exeritur.
Page 98 - Tusculosque colles, et quodcunque iacet sub urbe frigus, Fidenas veteres brevesque Rubras et quod virgineo cruore gaudet Annae pomiferum nemus Perennae.

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