De Amicitia, Scipio’s Dream By Cicero Translated, with an Introduction and Notes By Andrew P. Peabody SYNOPSIS. * * * * * DE AMICITIA 1. Introduction. 2. Reputation of Laelius for wisdom. The curiosity to know how he bore the death of Scipio. 3. His grounds of consolation in his bereavement 4. He expresses his […]

THE ACADEMICA OF CICERO. THE TEXT REVISED AND EXPLAINED BY JAMES S. REID, M.L. CAMB. M.A. (LOND.) ASSISTANT TUTOR AND LATE FELLOW, CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; ASSISTANT EXAMINER IN CLASSICS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1874 [All Rights reserved.] TO THOSE OF HIS PUPILS WHO HAVE READ WITH HIM THE ACADEMICA, THIS […]

M. TULLI CICERONIS ORATIO IN CATILINAM PRIMA IN SENATU HABITA   ARGUMENTUM L. Sergius Catilina, homo patricii generis, magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque, praetorius, qui iam a. u. c. 689 caedem consulum facere eaque facta rerum potiri constituerat, casu autem rem perficere prohibitus erat, ascitis ad consilium rei publicae opprimendae […]

  Empress Matilda Silver Penny 1098-1165     Matilda, or Maud, was the daughter of Henry I of England, and was married, in 1110, to the German Emperor Henry V. On his death, in 1127, she married Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou, by whom she had a son, afterwards Henry II. who would eventually become the first Plantagenet King of […]

FIRST ORATION OF CICERO AGAINST CATILINE WITH NOTICES, NOTES AND COMPLETE VOCABULARY. BY JOHN HENDERSON, M.A. TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED, Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, by THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, Limited, Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of […]

The Categories   By Aristotle   Translated by E. M. Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named ‘equivocally’ when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the name […]

THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION   by Aristotle Translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon Part 1 …[They were tried] by a court empanelled from among the noble families, and sworn upon the sacrifices. The part of accuser was taken by Myron. They were found guilty of the sacrilege, and their bodies were cast out of their graves […]

A new update from Martin Armstrong is now out on the 2012 Writings page: “Who is Really Behind the Curtain”