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... time . I have to express my hearty thanks to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for the tolerance which they have shown to the long delay in the completion of this , the first edition of Cicero's De Oratore with English notes , and to ...
... time . I have to express my hearty thanks to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for the tolerance which they have shown to the long delay in the completion of this , the first edition of Cicero's De Oratore with English notes , and to ...
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... 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 ( dróypapa ...
... 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 ( dróypapa ...
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... time all attempts to play a prominent part in politics . During the year B.C. 56 he appears to have been much at Rome ; some important forensic speeches delivered at this time are still extant1 : and we know of several others , which ...
... time all attempts to play a prominent part in politics . During the year B.C. 56 he appears to have been much at Rome ; some important forensic speeches delivered at this time are still extant1 : and we know of several others , which ...
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... time the De Oratore was finished , after the expenditure of much time and pains upon it : ' de libris oratoriis factum est a me dili- genter . Diu multumque in manibus fuerunt : describas licet ' ( Ep . Att . iv . 13. 2 ) . Perhaps it ...
... time the De Oratore was finished , after the expenditure of much time and pains upon it : ' de libris oratoriis factum est a me dili- genter . Diu multumque in manibus fuerunt : describas licet ' ( Ep . Att . iv . 13. 2 ) . Perhaps it ...
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... time which is at once one of the most obscure and one of the most important in the last century of the Republic . The widely differing judgments of historians show how difficult it is in the meagreness of our extant authorities to ...
... time which is at once one of the most obscure and one of the most important in the last century of the Republic . The widely differing judgments of historians show how difficult it is in the meagreness of our extant authorities to ...
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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.