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Suasoria V AD Drac.Romul.9 Deliberativa Achillis, an corpus Hectoris vendat. Achilles's deliberation, whether he should sell Hector's corpse.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 571.1-2 Halm ... ut si deliberent Scythae, cum pestilentia laborarent, utrum urbes instituant an sedes novas quaerant. for example, the Scythians, suffering from a plague, deliberate on whether to found cities or to look for new abodes.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 570, 29 Halm ... ut si deliberent Scythae urbes condere. for example, the Scythians deliberate on whether to found cities.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 570, 30 Halm ... ut si deliberent Scythae urbes condere, cum pestilentia laborarent. for example, the Scythians, suffering from a plague, deliberate on whether to found cities.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 571.28-29 Halm ... ut si deliberet Scipio exercitum in Africam classe transvehere for example, Scipio deliberates on whether to carry the army in Africa with the fleet.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 571.3-5 Halm ... ut cum deliberat Pompeius acie Pharsalica victus, Africam an Parthiam an Aegyptum petat. for example, Pompey, defeated in the Battle of Pharsalus, decides whether to head towards Africa, Parthia or Egypt.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 571.32-33 Halm ... ut si deliberet Cato victis partibus mori. for example, Cato deliberates on whether to die once his faction has been defeated.
Suasoria VI AD Aug.Rhet.P. 572.27-28 Halm ... deliberatio Lucretiae, an propter inlatum sibi stuprum semet occidat. for example, Lucretia deliberates on whether to commit suicide because of having been raped.
Controversia V AD - VI AD Ennod.Dict.21 LIBERI PARENTES AUT ALANT, AUT VINCIANTUR. Cuidam duo filii, frugi et luxuriosus. Piratas utrique incidere. Scripserunt patri de redemptione. Pater ve... Children must support their parents, or be imprisoned. A certain man had two sons, one frugal, the other a spendthrift. They were both captured by pir...
Controversia IV AD - V AD Hier.Epist.Xviii. Ad Praes., De Cereo Paschali 1 (p. 54, 12 Morin) Et ut breviter signem, puto te Quintiliani controversiae recordari, in qua pauper causatur, dolens ob interitum apum, flores ab impotentissimo divite ... And to put it briefly, I think you remember Quintilian's "controversia", in which the poor man, grieving the death of his bees, accuses the rich man o...