Latin Dictionaries. Greek Dictionaries. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, A, , A, Proverbs, chapter 1, verse 1. Psalm, chapter 1, verse 1. J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., Life of Cicero., Cicero's life from his birth to the opening of his political career (B.C. 106-76). Cicero's life from his birth to the opening of his political career (B.C. 106-76).
Cicero was born at Arpinum, a city with the Roman franchise (which was also the birthplace of Marius), Jan. 3, B.C. 106, of an equestrian family. His grandfather, who had a small estate in that region, was of Volscian stock, and thus belonged to the old virile country people of the republic. His grandmother was a Gratidia, closely connected by adoption with the great Marius and with prominent Roman politicians. His father, who was the eldest son, had increased the family estate by agriculture and by the profits of a fulling-mill, so that he was among the richest of his townsmen, and possessed the census of a Roman knight.
By his marriage with Helvia, a woman of the nobility, he became connected with many senatorial families. When about twenty-five years of age, Cicero began his active career. Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, Geographical and Historical Introduction. Geographical and Historical Introduction This brief section is intended to serve as a jumping-off point for the Overview by providing a summary description of the physical environment of the Greek world and a very short sketch of the end of Mycenaean civilization, which had flourished in mainland Greece1 for several hundred years before the period following 1200 B.C., with which the main part of the Overview commences.
The atlas in Perseus offers an alternative resource for understanding the landscape of Greece visually. The Landscape The Greek homeland lay in and around the Aegean Sea. This section of the Mediterranean Sea is dotted with numerous islands both large and small and flanked on the west by the land mass called the Balkan Peninsula, which today forms the territory of the modern nation of Greece, and flanked on the east by the coast of modern Turkey. Natural Resources Diet Only about twenty to thirty percent of the total land area of Greece was arable.
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, chapter 1. [*]1.
The Latin Alphabet is the same as the English (which is in fact borrowed from it) except that it does not contain J, U, and W. [*] Note 1. --The Latin alphabet was borrowed in very early times from a Greek alphabet (though not from that most familiar to us) and did not at first contain the letters G andY. It consisted of capital letters only, and the small letters with which we are familiar did not come into general use until the close of the eighth century of our era. [*] Note 2. [*]a. Perseus Digital Library. Welcome to Perseus 4.0, also known as the Perseus Hopper.
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