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 1 12|     own day more who disparage Cicero’s than Virgil’s glory. Nor
 2 15|  Africanus, or yourselves from Cicero or Asinius. ~
 3 16|    near us. For indeed, if, as Cicero says in his Hortensius,
 4 17|       speakers of our day, but Cicero, Caelius, Calvus, Brutus,
 5 17|       not see. With respect to Cicero himself, it was in the consulship
 6 17|        the result is that from Cicero’s death to our day is a
 7 17|       heard Caesar himself and Cicero, and also have been present
 8 18|      Calvus or Caelius or even Cicero had in no respect imitated
 9 18|        is polished and ornate; Cicero compared with either is
10 18|   finished in his phrases than Cicero. I do not ask who is the
11 18|        Cato? We know that even Cicero was not without his disparagers,
12 18|        of Calvus and Brutus to Cicero, and from these it is easy
13 18|       easy to perceive that in Cicero’s opinion Calvus was bloodless
14 18|       Brutus slovenly and lax. Cicero again was slightingly spoken
15 21|    with no better success than Cicero, but with better luck, because
16 22|               22 I come now to Cicero. He had the same battle
17 23|      every third clause in all Cicero’s speeches, “it would seem
18 24|  proved that from the death of Cicero to this present day is but
19 25|   speakers, so among ourselves Cicero indeed was superior to all
20 25|       Brutus the more earnest, Cicero the more impassioned, the
21 25|      the man. Calvus, Asinius, Cicero himself, I presume, were
22 25|        possible that he envied Cicero, when he seems not to have
23 26|      pitted man by man against Cicero, Caesar, and the rest. As
24 26|      he is to be ranked before Cicero, but unquestionably second
25 30|        doubtless familiar with Cicero’s book, called Brutus. In
26 30|        Hence we really find in Cicero’s works that he was not
27 30|        excellent friends, that Cicero’s wonderful eloquence wells
28 32|     attentive hearer of Plato? Cicero too tells us, I think, in
29 35|     appearance a little before Cicero’s time, and was not liked
30 35| censors, they were ordered, as Cicero says, to close “the school
31 37|   Licinius Archias, which make Cicero a great orator; it is his
32 38|    trials that not a speech of Cicero, or Caesar, or Brutus, or
33 40|  endure their legislation, and Cicero’s fame as an orator was