Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology/Volume 1/Number 1/Fronto and Tacitus
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Fronto and Tacitus.
Niebuhr on Fronto, Walther, Ritter, and Orelli on Tacitus, have omitted to compare H. IV. 6: (Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur) with Fronto, ad M. Cæs. de eloquent. 1 § 7 (p. 78 Nieb.): Novissimum namque homini sapientiam colenti amiculum est gloriæ cupido: id novissimum exuitur. Still greater is the resemblance between this passage of Fronto and those of Athen. and Simplic. cited by Orelli (after Lipsius and Boxhorn.) Milton has followed Tacitus. Lycidas 71: Fame…That last infirmity of noble minds. T.E.B. Mayor.