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... same time we find him treating of questions which had for him at most a secondary interest , and pouring forth with almost inconceivable rapidity a series of writings which he confesses to have been little more than transcripts ...
... same time we find him treating of questions which had for him at most a secondary interest , and pouring forth with almost inconceivable rapidity a series of writings which he confesses to have been little more than transcripts ...
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... same fascination of a perfectly finished style , combined with a real first- hand mastery of the subject - matter . In September , B.C. 57 , Cicero returned from exile . The warmth of his reception , alike in the provincial towns and in ...
... same fascination of a perfectly finished style , combined with a real first- hand mastery of the subject - matter . In September , B.C. 57 , Cicero returned from exile . The warmth of his reception , alike in the provincial towns and in ...
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... same time Cicero seems to wish to indicate that he is going back , behind the current school treatises on rhetoric , which were at once shallow and pedantic , to the more sound and scientific early authorities . There is not the least ...
... same time Cicero seems to wish to indicate that he is going back , behind the current school treatises on rhetoric , which were at once shallow and pedantic , to the more sound and scientific early authorities . There is not the least ...
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... same accusation as against Opimius , ' and this seems far more likely . 3 Valerius Maximus ( iii . 7. 6 ) tells us that Carbo was driven into exile , but his authority on such a point is not to be compared with that of Cicero , mature ...
... same accusation as against Opimius , ' and this seems far more likely . 3 Valerius Maximus ( iii . 7. 6 ) tells us that Carbo was driven into exile , but his authority on such a point is not to be compared with that of Cicero , mature ...
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... same time the action of C. Sergius Orata against M. Marius Gratidianus ( de Orat . i . 39. 178 ; de Off . iii . 16. 67 ) , in which Crassus , as advocate for Orata , insisted on the letter of the law , and Antonius appeared on the other ...
... same time the action of C. Sergius Orata against M. Marius Gratidianus ( de Orat . i . 39. 178 ; de Off . iii . 16. 67 ) , in which Crassus , as advocate for Orata , insisted on the letter of the law , and Antonius appeared on the other ...
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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.