1-dogma | dolab-neat | neede-terri | terro-zeal
Caput
501 34| denounced, respectively, Carbo, Dolabella, Cato, and Vatinius. ~
502 9 | but how much finer, if domestic circumstances so require,
503 12| suitor sitting before one’s door, or amid the wretchedness
504 30| their own books. You are doubtless familiar with Cicero’s book,
505 10| deliberately choosing a more doughty adversary. For myself, let
506 32| from her proper realm, is dragged down by them into utter
507 3 | the work of adding to the dramas of Greece a Domitius and
508 31| each inference is rapidly drawn. With such, it will be an
509 32| civil law, while they quite dread the study of philosophy,
510 26| an orator to wear a rough dress than to glitter in many-coloured
511 19| directions prescribed in those driest of treatises by Hermagoras
512 17| in which they strove to drive and beat back from their
513 21| speeches against Asitius or Drusus! Certainly his impeachment
514 21| speeches; he is so harsh and dry. Style, like the human body,
515 21| or other works equally dull and cold, unless it is some
516 | during
517 4 | neglect of my professional duties, every day undertake to
518 35| rarely in the courts, is dwelt on in grand language. ~
519 7 | Rome, ask for him and are eager, as it were to recognise
520 26| and often stumbling in his eagerness to strike, he wrangles rather
521 12| Here eloquence had her earliest beginnings; here is her
522 6 | peculiar sweetness. As with the earth, so with genius. Though
523 8 | and affluence, which it is easier to find men denouncing than
524 38| first place, were then so eclipsed by the fame of other trials
525 18| own words, as “languid and effeminate.” If you ask me, I think
526 6 | result of a fresh and sudden effort, his very anxiety enhances
527 14| delighted with the very elaborate arguments of our friend
528 18| Gracchus compared with the elder Cato is full and copious;
529 28| It was usual to select an elderly kinswoman of approved and
530 25| him call them ancients or elders or any other name he prefers,
531 37| decision, and on bribery at elections, the plundering of the allies,
532 10| the playfulness of the elegy, the satire of the iambic,
533 33| your satisfaction the first elements and the germs of ancient
534 21| recognise the polish and elevation of our own day; but, as
535 37| and published in, I think, eleven books of Transactions, and
536 42| discuss. Then he rose and embraced Aper. I mean, he said, to
537 16| recurs, and if that year embraces twelve thousand nine hundred
538 31| knows what pity is, and what emotions of the soul excite it. An
539 5 | celebrity throughout our whole empire and all the world. If, indeed,
540 14| schools, and for choosing to employ his leisure after the fashion
541 26| confused by the very weapons he employs, and often stumbling in
542 17| island. So, had this man who encountered Caesar in the field, been
543 5 | which knew nothing of such encounters. Of its usefulness I say
544 | ending
545 41| soon of one mind, or of endless harangues to the people,
546 19| as they were, patiently endured the length of a very confused
547 23| the client himself hardly endures them. They are dismal and
548 14| rhetorical studies, also engage in discussions which not
549 6 | effort, his very anxiety enhances the joy of success, and
550 12| purity and innocence, and enjoys her holy resting-place.
551 37| splendid has been her rise, and ennobled by these contests she lives
552 29| 29 But in our day we entrust the infant to a little Greek
553 15| other orator who shakes Ephesus or Mitylene with a chorus
554 31| of honest emotion, from Epicurus and Metrodorus, and to use
555 10| the iambic, the wit of the epigram, and indeed any other form
556 21| Deiotarus, or other works equally dull and cold, unless it
557 33| described to us the usual equipment of the ancient orators,
558 32| one who, like a soldier equipped at all points going to the
559 31| of the orator’s speeches. Equity in the law-court, honour
560 40| of the Gracchi was not an equivalent to Rome for having to endure
561 16| intervened between our own era and that of Demosthenes.
562 30| overflows out of a store of erudition, a multitude of accomplishments,
563 6 | respectable citizens who escort the pleader to and from
564 2 | debates, and their private and esoteric discourse. Yet many ill-naturedly
565 21| in the hands of students, especially the second of the orations.
566 30| our city, and how little esteem it had among our ancestors,
567 8 | man himself of the State esteems and almost reverences them.
568 30| logic, the useful lessons of ethical science, the movements and
569 12| Demosthenes, and that the fame of Euripides or Sophocles is bounded
570 32| their pleadings the style of every-day conversation, and unseemly
571 41| great tranquillity, let everybody make the best of the blessings
572 32| in another, and there is evidently a wide difference between
573 36| needed one guiding hand, he exactly adapted his wisdom to the
574 8 | all times shown by many an example what a height of fortune
575 25| the eloquence of that age exceeded ours. If again he freely
576 41| spiteful insinuation and exceeding proper bounds, when the
577 31| what emotions of the soul excite it. An orator practised
578 26| of the dancer. Hence the exclamation, which, though often heard,
579 31| orator to adopt even certain exclamations of honest emotion, from
580 10| Cato. Nor is this offending excused by the obligation of duty,
581 31| schools of rhetoricians, or to exercise the tongue and the voice
582 36| eloquence of the age was exercised, and, as it seemed, was
583 14| orators of our age, instead of exercising your talents simply on law-business
584 21| own fault that he did not exhibit the luxuriance and brightness
585 32| between possessing what one exhibits and borrowing it. Next,
586 38| the old courts. As they exist now, they are indeed more
587 26| Caelius, and Calvus, I expected that he would show us a
588 34| trained and practised by the experiences of others. The laws he learnt
589 33| afresh. As I have, it seems, explained to your satisfaction the
590 23| every sentence. You can express passion, and yet control
591 21| but, as for those mean expressions, those gaps in the structure
592 14| letters a pleasure most exquisite both to you who discuss
593 39| such pleadings are still extant, and thus the men too who
594 16| boundless universe, it is extremely short and is very near us.
595 1 | You often ask me, Justus Fabius, how it is that while the
596 12| if you think all this too fabulous and imaginary, at least
597 34| learnt by daily hearing; the faces of the judges were familiar
598 36| to whole families; hence, factions among the nobles, and incessant
599 40| wore out its strength in factious strife and discord, with
600 30| antiquity and a knowledge of facts, of men and of periods,
601 21| imagination satisfied his critical faculty. ~
602 34| that neither success nor failure could be disguised. You
603 32| which it is for you in fairness to explain, as I have now
604 27| freedom, from which we have fallen away even yet more than
605 29| Even parents themselves familiarise their little ones, not with
606 4 | controversy from its frequency and familiarity become by this time almost
607 36| feuds transmitted to whole families; hence, factions among the
608 19| may avoid offence to the fastidious ear, at any rate before
609 23| much of real vigour as of fasting. Even as to health of body,
610 13| day appointed by my own fates shall come; and let the
611 38| now, they are indeed more favourable to truth, but the forum
612 18| ungainly, and I wish that your favourite Calvus or Caelius or even
613 26| in terms common to all, fearing, I suppose, that he would
614 12| published, and at whose feasts they were present, as was
615 34| them eloquence in her true features, not in a mere resemblance;
616 39| ease, his eloquence grows feeble and breaks down. Nay more;
617 20| begins by speaking of the feebleness of his constitution, as
618 2 | that he had irritated the feelings of certain great personages,
619 21| Undoubtedly in his speeches he fell short of his reputation,
620 40| people, there any ignorant fellow, anybody, in short, could
621 35| the place itself, or their fellow-scholars, or the character of their
622 39| peril, and Rome’s citizens felt in a multitude of trials
623 21| with better luck, because fewer people know that they wrote
624 31| tongue and the voice in fictitious controversies quite remote
625 10| obligation of duty, or by the fidelity of an advocate, or by the
626 36| its material; it becomes fiercer with movement, and brighter
627 17| Pansa and Hirtius. Fix at fifty-six years the subsequent rule
628 34| almost say, learnt how to fight in battle. Thereby young
629 25| hundred years ago. I am not fighting about a word. Let him call
630 26| he wrangles rather than fights. Still, as I have said,
631 29| prejudices from the very first fill the child’s tender and uninstructed
632 8 | substantial wealth, that we see filling the homes of those who from
633 21| healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself
634 7 | name and point out with the finger? Strangers too and foreigners,
635 9 | gets the loan of a house, fits up a room, hires benches,
636 6 | educated gentleman, naturally fitted for worthy enjoyments, what
637 5 | ground that, though naturally fittest for that manly eloquence
638 22| and there is brought to a fitting and a brilliant close. There
639 20| Corvinus? Who will sit out the five books against Verres? Who
640 38| adjournment, and every one fixed for himself the limits of
641 9 | meaningless acclamations and a fleeting delight. We lately praised
642 20| the chance listeners who flock in, now usually require
643 16| Demosthenes and Hyperides who flourished, as we know, in the period
644 5 | strength? When we have a flow of prosperity, the efficacy
645 9 | short in the bloom and the flower, and does not come to any
646 31| by a diffuse and smoothly flowing speech, appealing to the
647 31| These are the sources whence flows the greater ease with which
648 2 | terse, and a sufficiently fluent style, while Aper, who was
649 5 | imperilled, while to malignant foes he is an actual fear and
650 32| have been applauding my own follies. ~
651 11| the bar, and for trains of followers on my way to and from the
652 9 | attends his receptions or follows in his train? Why, if his
653 34| no one can say anything foolish or self-contradictory without
654 40| nursling of the licence which fools called freedom; it is the
655 37| Eloquence is on the same footing. The oftener she has stood,
656 4 | a judge who will either forbid me for the future to write
657 9 | oil, a single book, he is forced actually to beg and canvass
658 25| impassioned, the richer and more forcible. Still about them all there
659 36| host of clients, even among foreign nations; the magistrates,
660 7 | finger? Strangers too and foreigners, having heard of him in
661 10| speak with authority. I foresee your possible answer. Hence,
662 15| of talk from you, when, forgetting the eloquence of yourself
663 1 | the past, our age is so forlorn and so destitute of the
664 31| Stoic school whom we are forming, but one who ought to imbibe
665 38| 38 I pass now to the forms and character of procedure
666 16| before our day. But you bring forward Demosthenes and Hyperides
667 17| which Vespasian has been fostering the public weal, and the
668 34| opponents and rivals, who fought with actual steel, not with
669 13| sacred retreats, and to their fountains far away from anxieties
670 16| this space of time by the frailty of human life, it perhaps
671 41| constitutions and vigorous frames, so the orator gets an inferior
672 4 | our controversy from its frequency and familiarity become by
673 39| begin from his question. Frequently he imposes silence on the
674 5 | might create and retain friendships, acquire connections, and
675 9 | any real and substantial fruit. He carries away with him
676 33| their very diligent and fruitful studies. I want to hear
677 27| Rather prepare yourself to fulfil your promise. We do not
678 31| one can speak on them with fulness, variety, and elegance but
679 22| merely be provided with such furniture as is enough for necessary
680 5 | to the senators in their fury? Armed with this, and consequently
681 26| unquestionably second to Gabinianus. ~
682 32| achieved in eloquence he had gained, not from rhetoricians,
683 10| Asia, to say nothing of our Gallic neighbours, ask after Saleius
684 26| Maecenas or the jingles of Gallio: so much better is it for
685 28| even his recreations and games. Thus it was, as tradition
686 21| mean expressions, those gaps in the structure of the
687 37| Letters. From these we may gather that Cneius Pompeius and
688 6 | the people assembling and gathering round him in a circle, and
689 22| fact, he was the first who gave a finish to oratory, the
690 22| pleasure in handling them and gazing on them. On the other hand,
691 26| their successors, except generally and in terms common to all,
692 25| points, seeing that they are generically alike. Calvus is the more
693 6 | the mind of an educated gentleman, naturally fitted for worthy
694 33| the first elements and the germs of ancient eloquence in
695 10| should not suffer those giant arms meant by nature for
696 5 | song, if he has not the gift of pleading causes. But
697 17| shared once and again in the gifts of the divine Augustus.
698 16| clearly for some time been girding himself for the attack,
699 30| latter part of it (the first gives an account of the ancient
700 29| actors and a passion for gladiators and horses, are all but
701 29| modesty, but with jesting and glib talk, which lead on by degrees
702 13| statue over my tomb be not gloomy and scowling, but bright
703 32| the arts, held sway with a glorious retinue over our souls,
704 21| beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline. I
705 41| in our own day, had some god in fact suddenly changed
706 9 | composition. Who the more goes back to his home saved from
707 12| a weapon. But the happy golden age, to speak in our own
708 32| been a genuine student, has gone through every branch of
709 27| without impairing mutual good-will. ~ Proceed, said Maternus.
710 37| brilliant speech unless he has got an adequate case. Demosthenes,
711 40| people content with a settled government. There were some orators
712 32| knowledge of many subjects sits gracefully on us, even when we are
713 11| by a sort of stratagem, granting permission to those who
714 27| remark of mine happens to grate on your ears, for you know
715 29| entrust the infant to a little Greek servant-girl who is attended
716 5 | accusation before you on the ground that, though naturally fittest
717 6 | plants, yet those which grow spontaneously are the more
718 37| his speeches against his guardians, and it is not his defence
719 36| confusion that needed one guiding hand, he exactly adapted
720 41| could wish. Who but the guilty or unfortunate apply to
721 12| her inmost shrine. In such guise and beauty did she first
722 27| now you had been in the habit of discussing, when you
723 17| then divide the age, and habitually describe as old and ancient
724 34| of repartee, and became habituated to the strife of words,
725 22| ideas should be expressed in halting and languid periods after
726 9 | part of the nights, he has hammered out, with the midnight oil,
727 32| studied as one of the meanest handicrafts. This then I believe to
728 3 | out whatever has given a handle for a bad interpretation,
729 22| find a frequent pleasure in handling them and gazing on them.
730 32| many persons who, if they happen to hear all this, will,
731 27| offended, if any remark of mine happens to grate on your ears, for
732 41| one mind, or of endless harangues to the people, when political
733 13| of comparing it with the harassing and anxious life of the
734 35| to schools in which it is hard to tell whether the place
735 35| studies, do their minds most harm. As for the place, there
736 21| in his speeches; he is so harsh and dry. Style, like the
737 20| endure in the law-court the harshness and roughness of antiquity,
738 13| or a freedman’s panting haste, or, anxious about the future,
739 41| among the healthy. As the healing art is of very little use
740 23| as of fasting. Even as to health of body, physicians are
741 8 | what it is easy for him to heap and pile on others, Marcellus
742 9 | will condescend to be his hearers, and not even this without
743 8 | we may know them, not by hearsay, but may see them with our
744 12| steal into those virgin hearts which no vice had contaminated.
745 23| like a man to be robust and hearty and full of life. If soundness
746 8 | by many an example what a height of fortune men have reached
747 38| of Asinius Pollio for the heirs of Urbinia, as they are
748 5 | this art are seen in the help and protection of others;
749 5 | but untrained wisdom of Helvidius Priscus, which knew nothing
750 40| untilled field yields certain herbage in special plenty. Still
751 21| single out any of the common herd, as Canutius, or Arrius,
752 36| that of a patron, or to see hereditary connections transferred
753 19| those driest of treatises by Hermagoras and Apollodorus. Any one
754 10| buskin or the measures of heroic verse, but even the sweetness
755 37| she has freely chosen, the higher and more splendid has been
756 19| speech-making. Then too they highly esteemed long preparatory
757 9 | a house, fits up a room, hires benches, and scatters programmes.
758 3 | Greece a Domitius and a Cato, histories and names from our own Rome.
759 11| even against my will. For hitherto I have upheld my position
760 36| failing to obtain it or from holding it weakly when obtained. ~
761 12| innocence, and enjoys her holy resting-place. Here eloquence
762 13| rose in a body and did homage to the poet, who happened
763 28| and of those native and home-bred vices which take hold of
764 12| least you grant me that Homer has as much honour with
765 31| certain exclamations of honest emotion, from Epicurus and
766 36| therefore quite as much as hope of reward prompted men not
767 39| spacious course tests a fine horse, so the orator has his field,
768 29| passion for gladiators and horses, are all but conceived in
769 16| if, as Cicero says in his Hortensius, the great and the true
770 6 | on every day and at every hour. To the mind of an educated
771 38| concluding within a very few hours; there was freedom of adjournment,
772 28| all the children of the household. In her presence it was
773 22| orator, like a rich and grand householder, not merely be sheltered
774 20| Verres? Who will endure those huge volumes, on a legal plea
775 31| the common sentiments of humanity. To impress such we must
776 19| protesting that they are in a hurry. ~
777 3 | I am therefore bent on hurrying on the publication of the
778 6 | rise and stand amid the hushed crowd, with every eye on
779 10| elegy, the satire of the iambic, the wit of the epigram,
780 22| his subject, and only an idea here and there is brought
781 22| to speak, with rust; no ideas should be expressed in halting
782 33| contrast presented by our idleness and ignorance to their very
783 23| a small matter not to be ill; I like a man to be robust
784 2 | esoteric discourse. Yet many ill-naturedly thought that Secundus had
785 22| as being now obsolete and ill-savoured. There should be no phrase
786 20| built of rough blocks and ill-shaped tiles, they shine with marble
787 41| that has been plundered and ill-treated? Surely it would be better
788 12| all this too fabulous and imaginary, at least you grant me that
789 21| his intellect or of his imagination satisfied his critical faculty. ~
790 30| and that he thoroughly imbibed every branch of philosophy
791 31| from reality, but also to imbue the mind with those studies
792 23| of oratory. You, Messala, imitate, I observe, the choicest
793 26| and licence of expression, imitates the art of the actor. Shocking
794 27| our convictions without impairing mutual good-will. ~ Proceed,
795 25| earnest, Cicero the more impassioned, the richer and more forcible.
796 21| or Drusus! Certainly his impeachment of Vatinius, as it is entitled,
797 25| being yet in its infancy and imperfectly developed, had certain defects. ~
798 18| once follow that difference implies inferiority. It is the fault
799 38| stronger proof of the greater importance of the cases tried before
800 39| question. Frequently he imposes silence on the advocate
801 5 | pursuit than which it is impossible to imagine one in our state
802 31| sentiments of humanity. To impress such we must borrow from
803 9 | the author, nor do they improve his circumstances. Although
804 35| scholars, there can be no improvement, when boys and striplings
805 35| to close “the school of impudence.” However, as I was just
806 36| or to seem spiritless and incapable of office from either failing
807 35| pestilence, or a mother’s incest, anything, in short, daily
808 31| assent is more secured by an incisive and terse style, in which
809 31| knowledge of the civil law was included in the training of the ancient
810 15| consoles some minds, to me increases the difficulty. For I perceive
811 33| only made a beginning, and indicated, so to say, its traces and
812 10| much as to the orator; for indifferent poets are known to none,
813 13| whom they grant it feel indignant? Is it that, bound as they
814 1 | the peculiarities of his individual temper and genius. Nor indeed
815 28| dearth of men, but from the indolence of the young, the carelessness
816 25| eloquence, being yet in its infancy and imperfectly developed,
817 31| terse style, in which each inference is rapidly drawn. With such,
818 41| frames, so the orator gets an inferior and less splendid renown
819 18| that difference implies inferiority. It is the fault of envious
820 30| practised by those orators whose infinite industry, daily study and
821 14| replied, I should have been infinitely charmed by the discourse,
822 25| the other faults of human infirmity. Brutus alone of the number
823 18| disparagers, who thought him inflated, turgid, not concise enough,
824 37| the more wounds she has inflicted and received, the mightier
825 25| of his heart frankly and ingenuously, without ill-will or envy.
826 19| instructed, has not at least been initiated into the rudiments of culture,
827 12| beginnings; here is her inmost shrine. In such guise and
828 12| to abodes of purity and innocence, and enjoys her holy resting-place.
829 41| as superfluous among its innocent people as a physician among
830 15| vast difference. I often inquire into them by myself. That
831 27| it is admitted. We are inquiring into the causes, and these
832 1 | burden of so serious an inquiry, involving, as it must,
833 8 | much that is great, busts, inscriptions, and statues hold but a
834 7 | privilege, considering the insignificance of my ability as a speaker,
835 41| defences full of spiteful insinuation and exceeding proper bounds,
836 8 | itself is the cause. Its inspiration and superhuman power have
837 8 | are, as I said but now, instances close at hand, and we may
838 19| throng who, if not fully instructed, has not at least been initiated
839 31| his style, and have every instrument of his craft in readiness,
840 11| and my safety better by integrity than by eloquence, and I
841 33| strengthen and nourish their intellects. For you will not, I imagine,
842 19| but from preference and intellectual conviction. He saw, in fact,
843 38| so to say, on eloquence, intending, however, that all business
844 7 | only with the busy class, intent on public affairs, but even
845 5 | friendship and uninterrupted intercourse than Saleius Bassus, an
846 3 | given a handle for a bad interpretation, will you publish, if not
847 27| eloquence. ~ Maternus here interrupted him. Rather prepare yourself
848 16| than four hundred years has intervened between our own era and
849 5 | himself the while secure and intrenched, so to say, within a power
850 6 | young and poor, in order to intrust him with difficulties affecting
851 11| bronzes and busts which have invaded my house even against my
852 23| not very far from being an invalid. Be it yours, my eloquent
853 40| themselves of the popular ear for invective against eminent citizens.
854 4 | never cease from abusing and inveighing against poets, and I, whom
855 23| discrimination in the phrases you invent, order in the treatment
856 22| beautiful passages, and invented certain arrangements of
857 15| you were prevailed on to investigate and describe to us the reasons
858 33| even the studies themselves involve a training, and no one can
859 37| accused, and the vast issues involved. These of themselves do
860 1 | of so serious an inquiry, involving, as it must, a mean opinion
861 2 | it was said that he had irritated the feelings of certain
862 17| Caesar when he attacked their island. So, had this man who encountered
863 37| men accused, and the vast issues involved. These of themselves
864 9 | good it is if Agamemnon or Jason speaks eloquently in your
865 10| themselves on the light javelin or the throwing of the quoit,
866 29| virtue and modesty, but with jesting and glib talk, which lead
867 22| among his treasures gold and jewels, so that he may find a frequent
868 26| curls of Maecenas or the jingles of Gallio: so much better
869 6 | reckoning the notorious joys of an orator, those which
870 37| theft, a technical point, a judicial decision, and on bribery
871 1 | 1 You often ask me, Justus Fabius, how it is that while
872 39| of place, for the judge keeps asking when you are going
873 22| hand, some things should be kept at a distance as being now
874 39| might have been stirred and kindled by the mere enthusiasm of
875 21| Samnite, or that of Brutus for King Deiotarus, or other works
876 12| the gods and with sacred kings, among whom, so we have
877 28| usual to select an elderly kinswoman of approved and esteemed
878 34| with our ancestors, when a lad was being prepared for public
879 33| training by which, when mere lads, and when about to enter
880 25| Servius Galba, and Caius Laelius, and others of the ancients
881 25| the number in my opinion laid open the convictions of
882 35| courts, is dwelt on in grand language. ~
883 34| and confidence, and a very large stock of discrimination,
884 17| own speeches. At the last largess of the Emperor you saw yourselves
885 31| desirable, and in several this last-mentioned knowledge is a necessity. ~
886 9 | and a fleeting delight. We lately praised Vespasian’s bounty,
887 17| 17 But I pass to the Latin orators. Among them, it
888 | latter
889 21| that I can hardly keep from laughing at some of the ancients,
890 13| scowling, but bright and laurel-crowned. As for my memory, let there
891 14| exercising your talents simply on law-business and rhetorical studies,
892 34| forum, the student in the law-courts, was trained and practised
893 28| to the soldier’s or the lawyer’s art, or to the study of
894 18| attenuated, Brutus slovenly and lax. Cicero again was slightingly
895 32| that it is enough for us to learn, as occasion requires, some
896 30| I say nothing about the learners’ first rudiments. Even with
897 40| for having to endure their legislation, and Cicero’s fame as an
898 22| tedious in his introductions, lengthy in his narrations, careless
899 37| might in arms; that the Lentuli, Metelli, Luculli, and Curios,
900 28| heart seize on every noble lesson. Whatever its bias, whether
901 30| subtleties of logic, the useful lessons of ethical science, the
902 10| the poet’s pursuit is less liable to give offence than that
903 30| grammar, or, in short, any liberal accomplishment. The subtleties
904 10| loyalty must be approved, our liberty of speech condoned. ~
905 37| Publius Quintius, or of Licinius Archias, which make Cicero
906 17| twenty years, one man’s life-time. For I saw myself an old
907 10| waste themselves on the light javelin or the throwing
908 20| whether it is a reflection lighted up by a neat and pithy phrase,
909 29| peculiar vices of this city, a liking for actors and a passion
910 21| and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the
911 25| replied, I will take the line you have prescribed for
912 17| they might, so to say, have linked and coupled together. ~
913 19| paraded, proofs in a thousand links, and all the other directions
914 12| causes, but an Orpheus, a Linus, and, if you care to dive
915 2 | enthusiasm which urged me to listen diligently to their trivial
916 34| disciple of orators, the listener in the forum, the student
917 14| apology for his poems in a lively speech, which as suited
918 36| and, as it seemed, was loaded with great rewards. For
919 18| is lucid, graceful, and lofty; Corvinus again is softer
920 13| repugnant to my heart. Let me no longer tremblingly experience the
921 33| friends here seem by their looks to think the same. ~ Aper
922 18| slightingly spoken of by Calvus as loose and nerveless, and by Brutus,
923 8 | them with our eyes. The lower and meaner their birth,
924 10| ears of the powerful, our loyalty must be approved, our liberty
925 20| treasures of Horace, Virgil, and Lucan. Thus the age of our orators,
926 18| compared with either is lucid, graceful, and lofty; Corvinus
927 23| before your eyes men who read Lucilius rather than Horace, and
928 21| Cicero, but with better luck, because fewer people know
929 23| rather than Horace, and Lucretius rather than Virgil, who
930 37| that the Lentuli, Metelli, Luculli, and Curios, and the rest
931 21| that he did not exhibit the luxuriance and brightness of our own
932 18| but unduly diffuse and luxuriant, in short anything but Attic.
933 25| Aeschines, Hyperides, Lysias and Lycurgus, while all agree in regarding
934 10| even the sweetness of the lyric ode, the playfulness of
935 40| existence of eloquence among the Macedonians or Persians, or in any people
936 13| tremblingly experience the madness and perils of the forum,
937 26| Crassus to the curls of Maecenas or the jingles of Gallio:
938 35| the choice of an outraged maiden, or a remedy for a pestilence,
939 1 | and ridicule of old times, maintained the superiority of the eloquence
940 5 | the imperilled, while to malignant foes he is an actual fear
941 7 | growth, is not bestowed by mandate, nor comes through interest.
942 37| lives in the praises of mankind. ~
943 5 | naturally fittest for that manly eloquence of the orator
944 12| modern, its origin in corrupt manners, and, as you said, Aper,
945 26| dress than to glitter in many-coloured and meretricious attire.
946 20| ill-shaped tiles, they shine with marble and glitter with gold? ~
947 9 | thousand pounds, as something marvellous and splendid. It is no doubt
948 37| plundering of the allies, and the massacre of citizens. Though it is
949 29| or does before his infant master. Even parents themselves
950 25| and who followed them. It matters nothing that they differ
951 32| is studied as one of the meanest handicrafts. This then I
952 10| suffer those giant arms meant by nature for combat to
953 | Meantime
954 | Meanwhile
955 16| that of Demosthenes. If you measure this space of time by the
956 10| tragedian’s buskin or the measures of heroic verse, but even
957 17| Claudius and Nero, the one memorable long year of Galba, Otho,
958 21| to have studied with the Menenii and Appii. At any rate he
959 17| them, it is not, I imagine, Menenius Agrippa, who may seem ancient,
960 26| glitter in many-coloured and meretricious attire. Indeed, neither
961 40| the courts, respect for merit, or seemly behaviour in
962 16| our union on behalf of the merits of the ancients. ~ Assuredly,
963 37| arms; that the Lentuli, Metelli, Luculli, and Curios, and
964 33| Hence we infer that the method of acquiring what you mean
965 31| emotion, from Epicurus and Metrodorus, and to use them as occasion
966 9 | has hammered out, with the midnight oil, a single book, he is
967 12| it is composed not in the midst of bustle, or with a suitor
968 37| inflicted and received, the mightier her antagonist, the sharper
969 | million
970 27| offended, if any remark of mine happens to grate on your
971 30| through Achaia and Asia Minor so as to embrace every variety
972 32| periods. Thus she who, once mistress of all the arts, held sway
973 15| orator who shakes Ephesus or Mitylene with a chorus of rhetoricians
974 41| too would not have lacked moderation and self-control. As it
975 12| conditions. As for the present money-getting and blood-stained eloquence,
976 16| but almost in the same month as ourselves. ~
977 25| affinity of intellect and moral purpose. Grant that they
978 41| splendid renown where a sound morality and willing obedience to
979 13| be aroused by a tumult of morning visitors, or a freedman’
980 12| beauty did she first charm mortals, and steal into those virgin
981 28| tradition says, that the mothers of the Gracchi, of Caesar,
982 39| field, and unless he can move in it freely and at ease,
983 36| it becomes fiercer with movement, and brighter as it burns.
984 30| of ethical science, the movements and causes of the universe,
985 31| readier power with which he moves to pity who knows what pity
986 37| libraries of antiquaries, which Mucianus is just now collecting,
987 30| civil law under Quintus Mucius, and that he thoroughly
988 28| soon as we are born, and multiply with every stage of life,
989 3 | clients from the colonies, municipalities, and towns, are calling
990 21| and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become
991 13| Virgil says, let “the sweet muses” lead me to their sacred
992 36| thought a disgrace to seem mute and speechless. Shame therefore
993 3 | and a Cato, histories and names from our own Rome.
994 22| introductions, lengthy in his narrations, careless about digressions;
995 19| preparatory introductions, narratives told from a remote beginning,
996 30| is not confined within narrow and straitened limits, but
997 12| is bounded by a limit not narrower than that of Lysias or Hyperides.
998 28| speak of Rome, and of those native and home-bred vices which
999 39| rooms and offices in which nearly all cases have to be set
1000 20| reflection lighted up by a neat and pithy phrase, or a passage
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