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Cicero, Pro Fonteio, 36
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1. Cicero, In Catilinam, 2.20 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Cicero, Pro Caelio, 34, 33 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Cicero, Pro Fonteio, 29-33, 35, 27 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Cicero, Pro Sestio, 130 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 8.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 8.6. To Montanus. You must by this time be aware from my last letter that I just lately noticed the monument erected to Pallas, which bore the following inscription Well, then, am I to consider that those who decreed these extravagant praises were merely gratifying his vanity or were acting like abject slaves ? I should say the former if such a spirit were becoming to a senate, and the latter but that no one is such an abject slave as to stoop to such servilities. Are we to ascribe it then to a desire to curry favour with Pallas, or to an insane passion to get on in the world? But who is so utterly mad as to wish to get on in the world at the price of his own shame and the disgrace of his country, especially when l
6. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 8.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 8.6. To Montanus. You must by this time be aware from my last letter that I just lately noticed the monument erected to Pallas, which bore the following inscription Well, then, am I to consider that those who decreed these extravagant praises were merely gratifying his vanity or were acting like abject slaves ? I should say the former if such a spirit were becoming to a senate, and the latter but that no one is such an abject slave as to stoop to such servilities. Are we to ascribe it then to a desire to curry favour with Pallas, or to an insane passion to get on in the world? But who is so utterly mad as to wish to get on in the world at the price of his own shame and the disgrace of his country, especially when l

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
anger	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2018) 284
barbarians	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2018) 284
christians,on gauls	Isaac (2004) 413
cicero,use of exempla	König and Whitton (2018) 305
counterfactual discourse	König and Whitton (2018) 305
domitian	König and Whitton (2018) 305
exempla and exemplarity,republican	König and Whitton (2018) 305
exempla and exemplarity	König and Whitton (2018) 305
gauls,cicero on	Isaac (2004) 413
gauls,julius caesar on	Isaac (2004) 413
hope,as a collective emotion	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2018) 284
julius caesar,on the gauls	Isaac (2004) 413
julius caesar,on the suebi	Isaac (2004) 413
kairos	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2018) 284
martial,and pliny	König and Whitton (2018) 305
martial	König and Whitton (2018) 305
nerva	König and Whitton (2018) 305
posidonius,on the cimbri,as a source for other authors on gauls and germans	Isaac (2004) 413
primitive peoples\r\n,human sacrifice offered by,as a source for other authors on gauls and germans	Isaac (2004) 413
regime change,flavian into trajanic	König and Whitton (2018) 305
revenge,hope for	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2018) 284
reversal	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2018) 284
time'	König and Whitton (2018) 305