Tuesday, February 21, 2006
RANDOM ROME ORATION
Julius Caesar(their spelling!)-on the punishment of the catiline conspirators 63 bc
But who, it may be asked, will blame any severity that shall be decreed against these parricides of their country? I anser that time, the course of events, and fortune, whose caprice governs nations, may blame it. whatever shall fall on the traitors, will fall on them justl:but it is for you conscript fathers, to consider well what you WHAT YOU RESOLVE TO INFLICT ON OTHERS. all precedents productive of evil effects have had their origin from what was good; but when a government passes into the hands of the IGNORANT OR UNPRINCIPLED, any new example of severity, inflicted on deserving and suitable objects, is extended to those that are improper and undeserving of it.
he then here talks of the Lacedaemonians after defeating athens and created a TRIALESS(warentless)star chamber of 30 powerful judges.
Julius Caesar(their spelling!)-on the punishment of the catiline conspirators 63 bc
But who, it may be asked, will blame any severity that shall be decreed against these parricides of their country? I anser that time, the course of events, and fortune, whose caprice governs nations, may blame it. whatever shall fall on the traitors, will fall on them justl:but it is for you conscript fathers, to consider well what you WHAT YOU RESOLVE TO INFLICT ON OTHERS. all precedents productive of evil effects have had their origin from what was good; but when a government passes into the hands of the IGNORANT OR UNPRINCIPLED, any new example of severity, inflicted on deserving and suitable objects, is extended to those that are improper and undeserving of it.
he then here talks of the Lacedaemonians after defeating athens and created a TRIALESS(warentless)star chamber of 30 powerful judges.
