Scipio Africanus
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 20 instances of Scipio Africanus in 16 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Scipio Africanus in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 23 · ¶ 11.
Various Events Sharing the Same Premise wary prudence is a mortal enemy to all high and generous exploits. Scipio, to sound Syphax’s intention, leaving his army, abandoning Spain, not yet secure …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 45.
On the Education of Children date of the ruin of Carthage, as the manners of Hannibal and Scipio; nor so much where Marcellus died, as why it was unworthy of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 39 · ¶ 1.
A Consideration on Cicero of eloquence have added a lustre suitable to a great personage, certainly Scipio and Laelius had never resigned the honor of their comedies, with all the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 41 · ¶ 5.
On Not Sharing One’s Fame Many at Rome thought, and would usually say, that the greatest of Scipio’s acts were in part due to Laelius, whose constant practice it was …
- Book 1 · Chapter 41 · ¶ 5.
On Not Sharing One’s Fame to Laelius, whose constant practice it was still to advance and support Scipio’s grandeur and renown, without any care of his own. And Theopompus, king …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 15.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment the remains. Neither is there want of example in both these cases. Scipio thought it much better to go and attack his enemy’s territories in …
- Book 1 · Chapter 57 · ¶ 7.
On Age I not confidently instance in those of Hannibal and his great rival Scipio? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 15.
On Conscience Scipio, being one day accused before the people of Rome of some crimes …
- Book 2 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 15.
On Conscience money that had passed through his hands in the province of Antioch, Scipio being come into the senate to that purpose, produced a book from …
- Book 2 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 42.
On Practice presumption of his personal valor, let him but recollect the lives of Scipio, Epaminondas; so many armies, so many nations, that leave him so far …
- Book 2 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 3.
On Freedom of Conscience we read the same of him that was said of Alexander and Scipio, that being in the flower of his age, for he was slain …
- Book 2 · Chapter 28 · ¶ 1.
All Things Have Their Season Censor from envy and ambition, having dared to attack the honor of Scipio, a man in goodness and all other excellent qualities infinitely beyond him …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 19.
The Story of Spurina a virtue that gives more work than suffering; the well living of Scipio has a thousand fashions, that of Diogenes but one; this as much …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 1.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War have had certain books in particular esteem, as Alexander the Great, Homer; Scipio Africanus, Xenophon; Marcus Brutus, Polybius; Charles V, Philippe de Commines; and ’tis said …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 106.
On Vanity and benefits much before his valor and warlike conquests; and the elder Scipio, wherever he would raise himself in esteem, sets a higher value upon …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 218.
On Vanity I knew the Seine. The qualities and fortunes of Lucullus, Metellus, and Scipio have ever run more in my head than those of any of …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 63.
On Conserving One’s Will an old blear-eyed crone. Those who have known the admirable qualities of Scipio Africanus, deny him the glory that Panaetius attributes to him, of being abstinent …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 70.
On Physiognomy never neglected beauty in their greatest affairs; no more did the first Scipio. The same word in Greek signifies both fair and good; and the …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 101.
On Experience lay to my feet and stomach. They found fault with the great Scipio that he was a great sleeper; not, in my opinion, for any …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 149.
On Experience manners that was in him. And among so many admirable actions of Scipio, the grandfather, a person worthy to be reputed of a heavenly extraction, …