ISBN: 1130473805

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ISBN: 9781130473803

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. … More...

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: . . . to Athens, in order that the laws of Solon might be copied, and the institutions of some other Grecian states, is familiar to the mind of every one. Doubtless, the similarity which existed between the ancient Latin letters and those of the Greek language, from which also the Latins borrowed many words, facilitated the acquirement of the Greek tongue. The merit of the writers of Greece, who address themselves to all mankind, could not fail of meeting with the admiration which they so justly deserved. Accordingly, a new aera in the literature of Rome commenced at the time when Carneades the academician, Diogenes the stoic, Critolaus, the peripatetic, were sent from Athens to Rome. They were introduced into the senate, and, as Gellius informs us, magno conventu hominum dissertaverunt. This would have been useless, if their auditors had not been conversant with their language. From t this time the Romans began to apply themselves to the study of philosophy. We know with what eager attention the lessons of Siro and Polydemus, two Greek philosophers, the friends of Cicero and Torquatus, are said to have been received. In the time of the Mithridatic war, Philo the academician arrived at Rome with some of the most noble families of Athens; and then Cicero first heard him. We do not here dwell on the names of many other Grecian philosophers, whose reputation attracted numerous followers at Rome; we pass to the subject of poetry. The poetry of the Greeks, as well as their philosophy, found admirers in the Romans. Cicero in two parts of his works (in the first book of the Tusculans and the first De finibus) has said that the Latins had become poets by imitating and reading the Greeks; and that they not only followed their steps, but translated their works. The names o. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<

ISBN: 9781130473803

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 58 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: . . . to Athens, in order that the laws of Solon might be copied, and the institutions of some other Grecian states, is familiar to the mind of every one. Doubtless, the similarity which existed between the ancient Latin letters and those of the Greek language, from which also the Latins borrowed many words, facilitated the acquirement of the Greek tongue. The merit of the writers of Greece, who address themselves to all mankind, could not fail of meeting with the admiration which they so justly deserved. Accordingly, a new aera in the literature of Rome commenced at the time when Carneades the academician, Diogenes the stoic, Critolaus, the peripatetic, were sent from Athens to Rome. They were introduced into the senate, and, as Gellius informs us, magno conventu hominum dissertaverunt. This would have been useless, if their auditors had not been conversant with their language. From t this time the Romans began to apply themselves to the study of philosophy. We know with what eager attention the lessons of Siro and Polydemus, two Greek philosophers, the friends of Cicero and Torquatus, are said to have been received. In the time of the Mithridatic war, Philo the academician arrived at Rome with some of the most noble families of Athens; and then Cicero first heard him. We do not here dwell on the names of many other Grecian philosophers, whose reputation attracted numerous followers at Rome; we pass to the subject of poetry. The poetry of the Greeks, as well as their philosophy, found admirers in the Romans. Cicero in two parts of his works (in the first book of the Tusculans and the first De finibus) has said that the Latins had become poets by imitating and reading the Greeks; and that they not only followed their steps, but translated their works. The names o. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<