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... form rather Platonic than Aristotelian . ' Surely nothing could be , at once in form and in spirit , more unlike the Platonic dialogues , the very essence of which lies in the search after truth by a process of dialectic , than a ...
... form rather Platonic than Aristotelian . ' Surely nothing could be , at once in form and in spirit , more unlike the Platonic dialogues , the very essence of which lies in the search after truth by a process of dialectic , than a ...
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... form , in the latter of the substance of the dialogue . It does not resemble the dialogues of Aristotle in so far as Cicero himself does not take part in it ; on the other hand , it is distinctly a dialogue of ex- position and not of ...
... form , in the latter of the substance of the dialogue . It does not resemble the dialogues of Aristotle in so far as Cicero himself does not take part in it ; on the other hand , it is distinctly a dialogue of ex- position and not of ...
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... form which he hoped might remove the constitutional objections to any interference with the decisions of the law - courts . As the author of the treatise Ad Herennium says ( ii . 28. 45 ) ' Sulpicius qui intercesserat , ne exsules ...
... form which he hoped might remove the constitutional objections to any interference with the decisions of the law - courts . As the author of the treatise Ad Herennium says ( ii . 28. 45 ) ' Sulpicius qui intercesserat , ne exsules ...
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... form of speech . Here we may ( with Spengel , op . cit . p . 63 ) distinguish the different tendencies of the two schools , the Sophists of Greece proper devoting themselves especially to correctness and precision of language ...
... form of speech . Here we may ( with Spengel , op . cit . p . 63 ) distinguish the different tendencies of the two schools , the Sophists of Greece proper devoting themselves especially to correctness and precision of language ...
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... form of verbiage , when a dozen words are used to say what might have been better said in half the number . But often a thought is beaten out thin ; it is expanded and developed , more in accordance with the requirements of the period ...
... form of verbiage , when a dozen words are used to say what might have been better said in half the number . But often a thought is beaten out thin ; it is expanded and developed , more in accordance with the requirements of the period ...
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Page 149 - Ego hanc vim intelligo," said Cicero, " esse in praeceptis omnibus, non ut ea secuti oratores eloquentiae laudem sint adepti, sed quae sua sponte homines eloquentes facerent, ea quosdam observasse, atque id egisse ; sic esse non eloquentiam ex artificio, sed artificium ex eloquentia natum.
Page 239 - In qua permaneo, Catule, sententia meque, quum hue veni, hoc ipsum nihil agere et plane cessare delectat. 25. Nam, quod addidisti tertium, vos eos esse, qui vitam insuavem sine his studiis putaretis, id me non modo non hortatur ad disputandum, sed etiam deterret. Nam ut C. Lucilius, homo doctus et perurbanus, dicere solebat ea, quae scriberet, neque se ab indoctissimis neque a doctissimis legi velle; quod alteri nihil intelligerent, alteri plus fortasse quam ipse...
Page 251 - Age vero, inquit Antonius, qualis oratoris et quanti hominis in dicendo putas esse historiam scribere? Si, ut Graeci scripserant. summi, inquit Catulus ; si. ut nostri, nihil opus est oratore; satis est non esse mendacem.
Page 178 - Aeliana studia delectant, plurima est et in omni iure civili et in pontificum libris et in XII. tabulis...
Page 364 - Veteribus, cum testis compellatus instaret: die ergo, Crasse, qualem me noris? talem, inquit, ostendens in tabula pictum inficetissime Gallum exerentem linguam.
Page 99 - Ut vero iam ad illa summa veniamus ; quae vis alia potuit aut dispersos homines unum in locum congregare, aut a fera agrestique vita ad hunc humanum cultum civilemque deducere, aut, iam constitutis...
Page 370 - Nasicae, qui cum ad poetam Ennium venisset eique ab ostio quaerenti Ennium ancilla dixisset domi non esse, Nasica sensit illam domini iussu dixisse et ilium intus esse ; paucis post diebus cum 5 ad Nasicam venisset Ennius et eum a ianua quaereret, exclamat Nasica se domi non esse, tum Ennius
Page 245 - Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia, nisi oratoris, immortalitati commendatur...
Page 252 - Hanc similitudinem scribendi multi secuti sunt, qui sine ullis ornamentis monumenta solum temporum, hominum, locorum gestarumque rerum reliquerunt. Itaque qualis apud Graecos Pherecydes, Hellanicus, Acusilas fuit, aliique permulti, talis noster Cato, et Pictor, et Piso, qui neque tenent, quibus rebus ornetur oratio — modo enim huc ista sunt impprtata, — et, dum intellegatur, quid dicant, unam dicendi laudem putant esse 54 brevitatem.
Page 92 - Ac, mea quidem sententia, nemo poterit esse omni laude cumulatus orator, nisi erit omnium rerum magnarum atque artium scientiam consecutus.