Word: stoic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fearless little stoic...
...with misprints: Van Dyck is Vansyke; spezzi is spezzos; signor, meaning "sir," is accorded a final e, which we do not remember to have previously seen; and, worst of all, Catania is called Catonia no less than four times, -the writer having apparently derived its name from the Roman Stoic, instead of from its old Greek name Karava...
...read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius - universally regarded as one of the hardest of Roman authors - is a young stoic of the time of Nero. The course will not be made intentionally difficult, but it will require close attention and care. It may be usefully combined with courses in philosophy, and all Latin 7 is the advanced division of 4. All the remarks made above with reference to 4 apply...
...stoic well could blame...
...visage was mild, but determined; his smile it was stoic and hard...