"Pansa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cicero's correspondence. After Caesar's death he attached himself to Caesar Octavianus, and he was consul B.C. 40. He left a journal of the events of his own and Caesar's life. He also urged Hirtius (Pansa) to write the Eighth Book of the Gallic War (Preface addressed ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... obvious; the old rhetorical skill, but more coarsely and less effectively used. The last Philippic was delivered to advocate a public thanksgiving for the victory gained over Antonius by the consuls, Hirtius and Pansa. A month later, the consuls were both dead, and their two armies had passed into the control of the young Octavianus. In autumn the triumvirate was constituted, with an armed force of forty legions behind ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... Julius) offered his services to the state, and with some hesitation they were accepted. The last struggle was begun. Intelligence soon arrived that Antony had been defeated at Mutina by the two last consuls of the Republic, Hirtius and Pansa. The news was dashed, indeed, afterwards by the further announcement that both consuls had died of their wounds. But it was in the height of the first exultation that Cicero addressed to the Senate his fourteenth Philippic—the last oration which he was ever to make. For the moment, ...
— Cicero - Ancient Classics for English Readers • Rev. W. Lucas Collins
... teachings had upon these young men would require a paper by itself. Perhaps no man has ever had a better opportunity than Cicero had in their cases to leave a lasting impression on the political leaders of the coming generation. Curio, Caelius, Trebatius, Dolabella, Hirtius, and Pansa, who were Caesar's lieutenants, in the years when their characters were forming and their political tendencies were being determined, were moulded by Cicero. They were warmly attached to him as their guide, philosopher, and friend, and they admired him as a writer, ...
— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott
... pontiff of the sun strove to hide from Cortez, when, sword in hand, he burst open the sanctorum of the pyramid-fane at Cholula: such pictures as you may still see, perhaps, in the central alcove of the excavated mansion of Pansa, in Pompeii—in that part of it called by Varro the hollow of the house: such pictures as Martial and Seutonius mention as being found in the private cabinet of the Emperor Tiberius: such pictures as are delineated on the bronze medals, to this day dug up on the ancient island of ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville |
