multorum, i.e. great minds whose thoughts have found expression in literature. multis litteris, wide reading. nihil esse, etc., these doctrines had been the commonplaces of philosophy and letters for hundreds of years before Cicero wrote, and to the cultivated Roman they took the place which with us belongs to the ethical teachings of sacred literature. parvi, of slight account: ยง 417 (252, a); B. 169,4; G. 379, 380, 1; H. 448 (404); H.-B. 356, 1. exemplorum, i.e. examples of heroism and virtue recorded in literature. The moral education of the ancients consisted largely in the study of the lives of eminent men of past ages. accederet, were thrown upon them..
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