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1 1 | clever speakers of this day we call pleaders, advocates,
2 2 | 2 It was the day after Curiatius Maternus
3 3 | book which he had read the day before, in his hands. Secundus
4 4 | professional duties, every day undertake to plead against
5 5 | Marcellus oppose the other day to the senators in their
6 6 | moment, but almost on every day and at every hour. To the
7 7 | experience more joy on the day on which I was presented
8 12| You will find in our own day more who disparage Cicero’
9 13| himself. Even in our own day, Pomponius Secundus need
10 13| Is it that, while every day something is asked from
11 13| necessity of doing every day something repugnant to my
12 13| whom I please, whenever the day appointed by my own fates
13 15| disparaging the culture of our own day. I have often heard this
14 16| hundred years before our day. But you bring forward Demosthenes
15 17| prefer to the speakers of our day, but Cicero, Caelius, Calvus,
16 17| from Cicero’s death to our day is a hundred and twenty
17 20| and Aulus Caecina? In our day the judge anticipates the
18 20| the temples of the present day are weaker, because, instead
19 21| and elevation of our own day; but, as for those mean
20 21| and brightness of our own day. Rather let us note how
21 24| of Cicero to this present day is but a hundred and twenty
22 25| the eloquent men of his day, though Calvus, Asinius,
23 29| 29 But in our day we entrust the infant to
24 39| the like were the every day lot of the orators of antiquity,
25 41| men we admire in our own day, had some god in fact suddenly
26 42| like to hear more, if the day were not almost spent. It
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