 | Henry George Liddell - 1857 - 792 pages
...track of their victim by a young man who owed everything to the Ciceros. The old Orator from his litter saw the pursuers coming up. His own followers were...husbands. The head which had given birth to the second Phillippic, and the hands which had written it, were nailed to the Rostra, the home of their eloquence.... | |
 | Henry George Liddell - 1860 - 796 pages
...victim by a young man who owed everything to the Ciceros. The old Orator from his litter saw the pumiers coming up. His own followers were strong enough to...husbands. The head which had given birth to the second Phillippic, and the hands which had written it, were nailed to the Rostra, the home of their eloquence.... | |
 | William Smith - 1865 - 428 pages
...called upon his executioners to strike. They instantly cut off his head and hands, which were carried to Rome. Fulvia, the widow of Clodius and now the wife of Antony, gloated her eyes with the sight, and even thrust a hairpin through his tongue. Antony ordered the head... | |
 | William Smith - 1874 - 410 pages
...called upon his executioners to strike. They instantly cut oft' his head and hands, which were carried to Rome. Fulvia, the widow of Clodius and now the wife of Antony, gloated her eyes with the sight, and even thrust n hairpin through his tongue. Antony ordered the head... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 pages
...of their victim by a young man who owed everything to the Cicerones. The old orator from his litter saw the pursuers coming up. His own followers were...widow of Clodius and now the wife of Antony, drove her hair pin through the tongue which had denounced the iniquities of both her husbands. The head which... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 452 pages
...track of their victim by a young man who owed everything to the Ciceros. The old orator from his litter saw the pursuers coming up. His own followers were...raised feelings of horror and pity in every heart. Cicero died in his sixty-fourth year. Brutus and Cassius left Italy in the autumn of BC 44 and repaired... | |
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The old orator from his litter saw the pursuers coming up. His own followers were strong enough to have made resistance, but he desired them to set the litter down. Then, raising himself on his elbow, he calmly waited for the ruffians and offered his... 