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506 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE spe aut inlusi per intercessionem socii Ac ne bello quidem Italico mox civili omissum quin multa et diversa sciscerentur donee Sulla dictator abolitis vel conversis prioribus cum plura addidisset otium ei rei haud in longum paravit What are the chief peculiarities of Tacitus' style Men- tion any words in which his use differs from that of Cicero Agamemnon would not have ruled the islands unless he had had some naval force Those who have made-money χρηματίζομαι are disagreeable to associate with as they are willing to praise nothing but wealth Instead of attacking them yourselves you are rather inclined to keep them off when they attack you Do not therefore suppose that we shall deliver over to you the only advantages we possess Now they that desired change and wished Brutus only their prince and governor above all other durst not come to him them- selves to tell him what they would have him do but in the night they cast sundry papers into the Praetor's seat where he gave audience and the most of them to this effect Thou sleepest Brutus and art not Brutus indeed Cassius finding Brutus' ambition stirred up the more by these seditious bills did prick him forward and edge him on the more for private quarrel he had conceived against Caesar Caesar also had Cassius in great jealousy and suspected him much whereupon he said on time to his friends when they complained unto him of Antony and Dolabella that they pretended some mischief towards him "As for those fat men and smooth-combed heads quoth he יי never reckon of them but these pale-visaged and carrion-lean people fear them most meaning Brutus and Cassius North's Translation of Plutarch Must thus leave thee Paradise thus leave Thee native'soil these happy walks and shades Fit haunt of Gods where had hope to spend