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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Ade Ileke 15: Cicero / expérimentation historique

Young Cicero Reading the Works of Aratus


Le pouvoir absolu de la théocratie d'Auguste.
.... Deus nobis haec otia fecit...
Rome, remplis par les luttes
de l'aristocratie et la démocratie,
les guerres civiles, et les explosions
de toutes les ambitions -
toutes les convoitises,
les passions les plus inhumaines...
mais Cicéron dans la vieillesse
retourné aux études de sa jeunesse...
et s'engageant à mettre en œuvre
des grands actes lesquels...
lesquels...
les actes distraits... et oublieux
--
an experiment in history


The absolute power of the theocracy of Augustus;
God gave us these leisures (Virgil)
Rome, filled with fighting
of aristocracy against democracy,
the civil wars, the explosions
of all ambition, all the lusts,
of the passions most inhuman...
but Cicero, when he retired,
returned to the studies of his youth
and set about to put into action
the great acts, which...
which...
acts distracted... and forgetting.
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