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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 call “ancients.” 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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