"Scipio" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quitted his studies for the profession of arms; but the return of peace restored him to his literary pursuits. Such was the attachment between Petrarch and Lello, that Petrarch gave him the name of Laelius, the most attached companion of Scipio. The other friend to whom Petrarch attached himself in the house of James Colonna was a young German, extremely accomplished in music. De Sade says that his name was Louis, without mentioning his cognomen. He ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch
... forest, And you must have felt some doubt of your chance of winning out Of all perils when your need was at the sorest. Mortal sickness now and then, and the pranks of lesser men, Must have tried your iron health and steely temper. But, like SCIPIO of old, you 're as patient as you're bold, And you turn up ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. • Various
... Plato with Dion, and of Pythagoras with the principal statesmen of all Italy. Cato himself took a voyage, when he had the concern of an expedition lying upon him, to see and hear Athenodorus; and Scipio sent for Panaetius, when he was commissioned by the senate "to take a survey alike of the habits of men good and bad," ("Odyssey," xvii. 487.) as Posidonius says. Now what a pretty sort of return would it have been in ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... faith in immortality. Desires perpetual memory in this world of the friendship between himself and Scipio. ...
— De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream • Marcus Tullius Ciceronis
... Arm of God, why sleepest thou? Men out of Gascony and Cahors are even now making ready to drink our blood. O lofty beginning, to what vile conclusion must thou come! But the high Providence, which made Scipio the sustainer of the Roman sovereignty of the world, will fail not its timely succour. And thou, my son, that for weight of thy mortal clothing must again descend to earth, see thou that thou openest thy mouth, and hidest not from others what has not ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
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