Qua dignum te laude feram, qui paene ruenti Page 45 from their bodies; an aged man, once a consul, survived the murder of his son but to be driven into exile.
Tum Brutus: Quam hoc idem in nostris contingere intellego quod in Graecis, ut omnes fere Stoici prudentissimi in disserendo sint et id arte faciant sintque architecti paene verborum, idem traducti a disputando ad dicendum inopes reperiantur.
That you are about to go over seas I cannot believe, when you have such dear regard for Dolabella Page 310 lectissimam, tantique ab omnibus nobis fias; quibus mehercule dignitas amplitudoque tua paene carior est quam tibi ipsi.
Horace had said clament periisse pudorem Cuncti paene patres; [20] Persius caricatures him, exclamet Melicerta perisse Frontem de rebus.
He is supposed to be miscalled by Cicero, [34] Fabius Pictor, for Cicero mentions a work in Latin by the latter author, whereas it is certain that the old Fabius wrote only in Greek.
The point in which he differed from the other authorities most strikingly is the date he assigns for the origin of the city; but Niebuhr thinks that his method of ascertaining it shows independent investigation.
The passage is so interesting that it may well be added here.
Poculum (probably from root seen in bibo) is a drinking vessel, cup: Socrates paene in manu iam mortiferum illud tenens poculum, T.
Cicero specifies among the qualifications of a speaker, 'Vox tragoedorum, gestus paene summorum actorum.
Tarrant points out to me a similarly weak paene at Tr III xi 13-14 'sic ego belligeris a gentibus undique saeptus / terreor, hoste meum paene premente latus'.
Ovid similarly indicates his frustrated desire to name his correspondent at Tr IV v 10 'excidit heu nomen quam mihi paene tuum' and at EP III vi 1-2 'Naso suo (posuit nomen quam paene!
Getes is also used as an adjective at xiii 18 'paene poeta Getes'.
Omnis paene veteres: the statement is audaciously inexact, and is criticised II.
In Galliâ non solum in omnibus civitatibus atque in omnibus pagis partibusque sed paene etiam in singulis domibus factiones sunt, earumque factionum principes sunt qui summam auctoritatem eorum judicio habere existimantur.
Erat paene rudis (says the orthodox Bull) disciplinae Christianae, et in rhetorica melius quam in theologia versatus.
Paene is used as an adjective by a Greek construction, A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
