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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
A dialogue on oratory

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ancients

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1 1 | indeed we apply only to the ancients, and the clever speakers 2 16| behalf of the merits of the ancients. ~ Assuredly, said Aper, 3 16| will ask you whom you call ancients, or what period of orators 4 16| definition? When I hear of ancients, I understand men of the 5 18| whom we may rightly callancients.” These indeed are rough, 6 18| even in those whom you call ancients several varieties are to 7 19| indeed the admirers of the ancients fix as the boundary, so 8 21| laughing at some of the ancients, and from falling asleep 9 22| with you. They admired the ancients; he preferred the eloquence 10 23| choicest beauties of the ancients. And you, Maternus and Secundus, 11 24| was his tirade against the ancients! What ability and spirit, 12 24| neither want a defence of the ancients, nor do we compare any of 13 24| then not a panegyric on the ancients (their own fame is a sufficient 14 25| it is not correct to call ancients those whom we all know to 15 25| word. Let him call them ancients or elders or any other name 16 25| Laelius, and others of the ancients whom Aper has persistently 17 27| superior eloquence of the ancients; as far as I am concerned, 18 27| you are speaking of the ancients, avail yourself of ancient 19 31| was the conviction of the ancients, and to produce this result


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