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  • Cicero — Oratio pro Archia — occurring to me, I quoted it;

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • Archia_ in support of his friend's title to the Roman citizenship.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Archia ":" Thanks to books, "says the prelate," the dead appear to me as though they still lived ....

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • The _Pro Archia_ foreshadows already the change which was bound to take place in Cicero's life, and which was precipitated by his exile four years later.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • The manner in which Cicero conducted a defence when the cause was not so grave or so desperate is well illustrated by a speech delivered four years later, the _Pro Archia_.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • There is another word which Cicero uses -- for I have still somewhat more to say of that passage from the oration "pro Archia poeta" -- the word "rusticantur," which indicates that civilization twenty centuries ago made a practice of taking books out into the country for summer reading.

    The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac 1896

  • There is another word which Cicero uses -- for I have still somewhat more to say of that passage from the oration "pro Archia poeta" -- the word

    The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872

  • 'Not very studious, sir; I fear it is the want of society that brings me hither; I am solitary and unknown in this metropolis'; and a passage from Cicero -- Oratio pro Archia -- occurring to me,

    Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

  • Q. Enmus, Ra - dioi Calabria » po6ta ioo tempore prate -.ftani. p» Archia.

    M. Tvllii Ciceronis Opera qvae svpersvnt omnia secvndvm optimae ... 1787

  • 'Not very studious, sir; I fear it is the want of society that brings me hither; I am solitary and unknown in this metropolis'; and a passage from Cicero ” Oratio pro Archia ” occurring to me, I quoted it; 'Haec studia pronoctant nobiscum, perigrinantur, rusticantur.'

    Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

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