Monthly Archives: November 2012

Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 59 Brutus, since those men were taken up with their mourning, holding before himself the blade, dripping with gore, drawn out from Lucretia’s wound says, “By this blood most chaste, prior to the royal injustice, I swear, and you … Continue reading →

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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 57 The siege of Ardea ; and a contest of womanly virtue. The Rutuli held Ardea, a tribe, as in that region and in that time, very powerful with riches ; and those very riches were the cause of … Continue reading →

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Thucydides’ History, Book 6

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Mark Mueller

I’m a bad student, and I missed the class for Chapters 41 and 42. Chapter 43 After this, the Athenians, with a great deal of preparation, having already set out from Corcyra were crossing over against Sicily, with thirty and … Continue reading →

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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 54 Sextus Tarquinius treacherously hands over Gabii to his father. Thenceforth, he was invited to public counsels. Then, when he said that he agreed with the long-standing Gabii concerning other matters, for whom these things were more familiar, he … Continue reading →

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Thucydides’ History, Book 6

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 40 But surely, whether having learned better or having changed your mind, increase the common concern to everyone of the city, believing in this way that the good among you have an equal or better share share [the very … Continue reading →

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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 46 “As for words, I have spoken them according to custom as much as is fitting, and as for deeds, these men now buried have been adorned all this, and also that wherein the city shall rear their children … Continue reading →

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Chronicles From the City Founding of Livius Titus, Book I

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 53 War with the Volscians. Sextus Tarquinius, feigning to be a deserter, presents himself at Gabii. Nor, although the king was unjust in peace, was he yet a crooked leader of war ; moreover he could equal better kings … Continue reading →

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Thucydides’ History, Book 6

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Mark Mueller

* This is my 100th post! * Chapter 35 Such did Hermocrates say ; and the public body of Syracuse were in great strife toward each other. For some held that the Athenians were in no way coming and there … Continue reading →

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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 44 For this very reason the parents of those now, as many as are here, I do not pity them more than I will comfort them. For they understand that they reared them in manifold misfortunes ; he is … Continue reading →

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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Mark Mueller

Chapter 43 These men arose fittingly to this city ; and the rest must pray to be on surer footing, and not to be any more un-daring and resolve to have heart for battles, and consider aid not in word … Continue reading →

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