1-dogma | dolab-neat | neede-terri | terro-zeal
Caput
1001 36| universal confusion that needed one guiding hand, he exactly
1002 32| accomplishment. ~ All this is so neglected by the speakers of our time
1003 18| of by Calvus as loose and nerveless, and by Brutus, to use his
1004 16| have in my eye Ulysses and Nestor, whose time is about thirteen
1005 15| one hand, and your friend Nicetes or any other orator who
1006 10| the vigour and strength of Nicostratus, I should not suffer those
1007 | nine
1008 34| which Lucius Crassus in his nineteenth, Caesar and Asinius Pollio
1009 | ninety
1010 39| antiquity, when both numbers and nobility pressed into the forum,
1011 23| you are doing, with the noblest style of oratory. You, Messala,
1012 | nobody
1013 15| of rhetoricians and their noisy applause, on the other,
1014 23| Aufidius Bassus, and Servilius Nonianus compared with that of Sisenna
1015 36| in the senate, the more notoriety and fame with the people.
1016 33| they used to strengthen and nourish their intellects. For you
1017 39| of antiquity, when both numbers and nobility pressed into
1018 10| talked of throughout our numerous provinces? How few, when
1019 28| the chamber of a purchased nurse, but in that mother’s bosom
1020 40| eloquence of old is the nursling of the licence which fools
1021 22| a distance as being now obsolete and ill-savoured. There
1022 36| from holding it weakly when obtained. ~
1023 7 | ministers of the crown. On such occasions I seem to rise above tribunates,
1024 29| mother’s womb. When these occupy and possess the mind, how
1025 37| sufferings, still, when they did occur, they supplied a grand material
1026 10| the sweetness of the lyric ode, the playfulness of the
1027 36| If brought into popular odium, or under some charge, they
1028 10| sake of Cato. Nor is this offending excused by the obligation
1029 22| The orator must shun an offensive and tasteless scurrility;
1030 36| the consulship seemed to offer themselves to them, and
1031 39| by the little rooms and offices in which nearly all cases
1032 12| said, and then with the offspring of the gods and with sacred
1033 9 | hammered out, with the midnight oil, a single book, he is forced
1034 34| Calvus, when very little older, denounced, respectively,
1035 23| mentioned them with reluctance, omitting several, although they are
1036 21| although he has left, I think, one-and-twenty volumes, scarcely satisfies
1037 29| familiarise their little ones, not with virtue and modesty,
1038 9 | so require, to cultivate oneself, to make one’s own genius
1039 20| constitution, as is usual in the openings of Corvinus? Who will sit
1040 36| present and of speaking it openly. There was thus a strong
1041 30| under whom he had had the opportunity of studying at Rome, he
1042 5 | eloquence did Eprius Marcellus oppose the other day to the senators
1043 12| no vice had contaminated. Oracles spoke under these conditions.
1044 35| were censors, they were ordered, as Cicero says, to close “
1045 41| thoroughly reformed or as orderly as we could wish. Who but
1046 12| its use is modern, its origin in corrupt manners, and,
1047 20| bright with choice and poetic ornament. For we now expect from
1048 18| Gracchus is polished and ornate; Cicero compared with either
1049 20| has advanced in beauty and ornateness. Nor does it follow that
1050 12| pleader of causes, but an Orpheus, a Linus, and, if you care
1051 19| a multitude of divisions ostentatiously paraded, proofs in a thousand
1052 17| memorable long year of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, and the
1053 | ours
1054 21| ruddy glow and graceful outline. I will not attack Corvinus,
1055 33| so to say, its traces and outlines. You have indeed described
1056 16| however, which they both outlived. Hence we see that not much
1057 35| tyrannicide, or the choice of an outraged maiden, or a remedy for
1058 39| eloquence by those little overcoats into which we squeeze, and,
1059 30| wonderful eloquence wells up and overflows out of a store of erudition,
1060 12| or Messala so famous as Ovid’s Medea or the Thyestes
1061 3 | the answer, what Maternus owed it to himself to write,
1062 6 | know that the honour is paid not to his wealth, his childlessness,
1063 13| perils of the forum, and the pallors of fame. Let me not be aroused
1064 13| visitors, or a freedman’s panting haste, or, anxious about
1065 19| divisions ostentatiously paraded, proofs in a thousand links,
1066 42| good-humouredly, and we parted.~
1067 16| and of the stars at any particular moment recurs, and if that
1068 21| these the whole, or at least parts, in which we recognise the
1069 36| magistrates who, I may say, passed nights on the Rostra; hence,
1070 19| new and skilfully chosen paths, in order that the orator
1071 16| attack, and cannot bear with patience our union on behalf of the
1072 19| uncultured as they were, patiently endured the length of a
1073 36| client rather than that of a patron, or to see hereditary connections
1074 10| with you the ardour of a peculiarly noble nature bursts forth,
1075 17| elected himself and Quintus Pedius consuls in the room of Pansa
1076 10| the very choicest readings penetrate every part of Rome, much
1077 15| deny to yourself. I feel no penitence, said Messala, for such
1078 32| learned and critical hearer, perceives it, and forthwith showers
1079 31| we must borrow from the Peripatetics commonplaces suited and
1080 11| sort of stratagem, granting permission to those who cannot plead
1081 40| among the Macedonians or Persians, or in any people content
1082 15| Aper replied, You still persist, Messala, in admiring only
1083 25| the ancients whom Aper has persistently assailed, he must not expect
1084 8 | for the appearance of his person, they have now for many
1085 2 | feelings of certain great personages, because in the subject
1086 23| elegance in your style, and perspicuity in every sentence. You can
1087 30| with grace, elegance, and persuasiveness, suitably to the dignity
1088 35| maiden, or a remedy for a pestilence, or a mother’s incest, anything,
1089 13| resolutions in the senate, or petitions to the emperor. ~
1090 4 | desired, to give up the petty subtleties of legal causes,
1091 16| we know, in the period of Philip and Alexander, a period,
1092 30| branch of philosophy under Philo of the Academy and under
1093 31| occasion requires. It is not a philosopher after the Stoic school whom
1094 19| rhetoricians or the dogmas of philosophers. But now that all these
1095 41| its innocent people as a physician among the healthy. As the
1096 23| Even as to health of body, physicians are not satisfied with that
1097 22| is nothing which you can pick out or quote, and the style
1098 34| the assembly, and thus he picked up the art of repartee,
1099 10| satisfied, as if he had seen a picture or a statue. I do not wish
1100 28| disgraceful act. With scrupulous piety and modesty she regulated
1101 8 | easy for him to heap and pile on others, Marcellus and
1102 20| lighted up by a neat and pithy phrase, or a passage bright
1103 36| not to take the place of a pitiful client rather than that
1104 26| least as many who might be pitted man by man against Cicero,
1105 19| deviate from the old and plain path of the speaker, I maintain
1106 24| sufficient panegyric) but tell us plainly the reasons why with us
1107 3 | This is a tragedy, the plan of which I have in my own
1108 5 | should be the aim of all our plans and actions, what can be
1109 6 | and cultivation of some plants, yet those which grow spontaneously
1110 1 | assigned a different but plausible reason, thereby displaying
1111 10| sweetness of the lyric ode, the playfulness of the elegy, the satire
1112 39| and thus the men too who pleaded, owe their fame to no other
1113 1 | speakers of this day we call pleaders, advocates, counsellors,
1114 8 | and Crispus Vibius (it is pleasanter to me to cite recent and
1115 13| what I can leave to whom I please, whenever the day appointed
1116 14| world, I see, is as much pleased with you, Secundus, for
1117 6 | spontaneously are the more pleasing. ~
1118 41| it not one that has been plundered and ill-treated? Surely
1119 37| bribery at elections, the plundering of the allies, and the massacre
1120 21| in which we recognise the polish and elevation of our own
1121 41| harangues to the people, when political questions are decided not
1122 13| himself. Even in our own day, Pomponius Secundus need not yield
1123 36| without end and consequent popularity; hence, speeches of magistrates
1124 2 | culture which he really possessed. He would have, so he must
1125 32| wide difference between possessing what one exhibits and borrowing
1126 6 | his childlessness, or his possession of some office, but to himself?
1127 9 | giving Bassus four thousand pounds, as something marvellous
1128 1 | reflections which I heard, powerfully expressed, from men of the
1129 7 | quaestor, or tribune, or praetor, than on those on which
1130 38| according to law, and before the praetors. Here is a stronger proof
1131 36| soon as they returned. The praetorship and the consulship seemed
1132 7 | to rise above tribunates, praetorships, and consulships, and to
1133 32| I am sure, say that, in praising an acquaintance with law
1134 41| multitude, but by one man of pre-eminent wisdom? What need of voluntary
1135 25| agree in regarding this as pre-eminently the age of speakers, so
1136 25| being preferred to those who preceded and who followed them. It
1137 19| authority, not by law and precedent, who fix the speaker’s time,
1138 10| venerable, and I regard as preferable to all studies of other
1139 25| elders or any other name he prefers, provided only we have the
1140 29| Their stories and their prejudices from the very first fill
1141 18| 18 I have made these preliminary remarks to show that any
1142 19| they highly esteemed long preparatory introductions, narratives
1143 27| interrupted him. Rather prepare yourself to fulfil your
1144 11| something of a smile. I was preparing to attack the orators at
1145 39| both numbers and nobility pressed into the forum, when gatherings
1146 25| Asinius, Cicero himself, I presume, were apt to be envious
1147 40| subjection, a defiant, reckless, presumptuous thing which does not show
1148 2 | with learning of all kinds, pretended to despise the culture which
1149 26| that our orators speak prettily and our actors dance eloquently.
1150 8 | could not be received from a prince. Amid so much that is great,
1151 5 | untrained wisdom of Helvidius Priscus, which knew nothing of such
1152 12| wretchedness and tears of prisoners, but that the soul withdraws
1153 10| sure to win the highest prize you stop short at meaner
1154 36| stimulus to win the great prizes of eloquence, and as the
1155 38| the forms and character of procedure in the old courts. As they
1156 27| impairing mutual good-will. ~ Proceed, said Maternus. As you are
1157 24| with which he forthwith proceeded to attack them! Still, as
1158 33| produce publicly, and of so producing what you have acquired,
1159 12| Virgil’s glory. Nor is any production of Asinius or Messala so
1160 35| strange and astonishing productions are the result! It comes
1161 11| sanctities of culture were profaned, and if at this moment I
1162 4 | reproach with neglect of my professional duties, every day undertake
1163 37| that it is better and more profitable to enjoy peace than to be
1164 9 | hires benches, and scatters programmes. Even if his reading is
1165 21| to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be
1166 36| as much as hope of reward prompted men not to take the place
1167 9 | to make one’s own genius propitious, to fall back on one’s own
1168 26| arrangement, to cast off propriety and delicacy of expression,
1169 23| admiration. When these men prose in the old style before
1170 5 | advantages, more splendid in its prospects, more attractive in fame
1171 5 | When we have a flow of prosperity, the efficacy and use of
1172 36| of a settled, quiet, and prosperous community allow, still in
1173 19| him to it when he wanders, protesting that they are in a hurry. ~
1174 41| home? When we plead for a province is it not one that has been
1175 28| the provinces. But your provincial affairs are best known to
1176 3 | clinging to your Cato with its provocations? Or have you taken up the
1177 3 | bent on hurrying on the publication of the present book, that,
1178 33| what you mean to produce publicly, and of so producing what
1179 3 | interpretation, will you publish, if not a better, at least
1180 29| scholars. In fact, they draw pupils, not by strictness of discipline
1181 28| not in the chamber of a purchased nurse, but in that mother’
1182 12| withdraws herself to abodes of purity and innocence, and enjoys
1183 25| affinity of intellect and moral purpose. Grant that they disparaged
1184 22| is enough for necessary purposes, but also possess among
1185 2 | depend on any supports from pursuits alien to his profession. ~
1186 10| amuse their leisure and push themselves into fame by
1187 41| unfortunate apply to us? What town puts itself under our protection
1188 7 | influential state, I was elected quaestor, or tribune, or praetor,
1189 34| more, its rise from that quarter is steadier, and its growth
1190 41| the people, when political questions are decided not by an ignorant
1191 37| not his defence of Publius Quintius, or of Licinius Archias,
1192 10| javelin or the throwing of the quoit, so now I summon you from
1193 22| which you can pick out or quote, and the style is like a
1194 22| roof sufficient to keep off rain and wind, but by one to
1195 25| against Aper, who began by raising what I think a controversy
1196 34| orator who held the highest rank in the state. The boy used
1197 26| conviction that he is to be ranked before Cicero, but unquestionably
1198 31| which each inference is rapidly drawn. With such, it will
1199 41| prosecutions, when crimes are so rare and slight, or of defences
1200 35| schools, never, or but very rarely in the courts, is dwelt
1201 6 | audacity at the moment, and rashness itself, have quite a peculiar
1202 27| less excited and were not raving against the eloquence of
1203 8 | height of fortune men have reached by the might of genius.
1204 31| the anger of a judge, the readier power with which he moves
1205 6 | influence of the whole world, readily confessing, amid the utmost
1206 10| rumour of the very choicest readings penetrate every part of
1207 21| hardly suppose that any one reads Caesar’s speech for Decius
1208 31| commonplaces suited and ready prepared for every discussion.
1209 32| to say, from her proper realm, is dragged down by them
1210 1 | different but plausible reason, thereby displaying the
1211 | recent
1212 40| and subjection, a defiant, reckless, presumptuous thing which
1213 6 | himself assumed. I am now reckoning the notorious joys of an
1214 1 | ability, it is only memory and recollection which I require. I have
1215 8 | s eloquence. Without the recommendation of birth, without the support
1216 37| had in your hands the old records, still to be found in the
1217 28| occupations, but even his recreations and games. Thus it was,
1218 16| at any particular moment recurs, and if that year embraces
1219 41| complain than to have to seek redress. Could a community be found
1220 26| and which, with its idle redundancy of words, its meaningless
1221 18| to show that any credit reflected on the age by the fame and
1222 1 | discussion, those subtle reflections which I heard, powerfully
1223 41| of a state not thoroughly reformed or as orderly as we could
1224 10| cannot even fall back on the refuge which shelters many, the
1225 5 | said Secundus, before Aper refuses me as a judge, I will do
1226 34| self-contradictory without its being refuted by the judge, or ridiculed
1227 10| sacred and venerable, and I regard as preferable to all studies
1228 25| Lycurgus, while all agree in regarding this as pre-eminently the
1229 4 | become by this time almost a regular practice. You, in fact,
1230 26| rhetoricians who does not rejoice in his conviction that he
1231 42| the antiquarians. And I, rejoined Aper, will accuse you before
1232 30| the ancient orators) he relates his own beginnings, his
1233 9 | train? Why, if his friend or relative or even he himself stumbles
1234 34| taken by his father, or his relatives to the orator who held the
1235 9 | of the capital; he must relinquish every other duty, and must,
1236 23| have mentioned them with reluctance, omitting several, although
1237 27| right to be offended, if any remark of mine happens to grate
1238 35| an outraged maiden, or a remedy for a pestilence, or a mother’
1239 37| then remind you, we must remember the point, and understand
1240 20| brilliant passage worthy of remembrance. They tell it one to another,
1241 12| you care to dive into a remoter age, an Apollo himself.
1242 8 | quite as great men in the remotest corners of the world as
1243 34| he picked up the art of repartee, and became habituated to
1244 1 | which I require. I have to repeat now, with the same divisions
1245 38| of long rest, of unbroken repose for the people and tranquillity
1246 16| your Demosthenes, whom you represent as so old and ancient, began
1247 4 | against poets, and I, whom you reproach with neglect of my professional
1248 34| opponent, or, last of all, repudiated by the very counsel with
1249 13| doing every day something repugnant to my heart. Let me no longer
1250 30| they are called, who are in request. When this profession was
1251 30| dignity of his subject, the requirements of the occasion, and the
1252 35| being comparatively easy and requiring less skill, is given to
1253 31| craft in readiness, or in reserve for every occasion. Some
1254 13| memory, let there be no resolutions in the senate, or petitions
1255 11| speeches. And so now I have resolved to throw off the yoke of
1256 19| culture, eloquence must resort to new and skilfully chosen
1257 6 | all? Again, look at the respectable citizens who escort the
1258 34| little older, denounced, respectively, Carbo, Dolabella, Cato,
1259 12| innocence, and enjoys her holy resting-place. Here eloquence had her
1260 38| perfect discipline had put its restraints on eloquence as well as
1261 38| third consulship, first restricted all this, and put a bridle,
1262 1 | eloquence that it scarce retains the very name of orator.
1263 32| held sway with a glorious retinue over our souls, now clipped
1264 9 | as poets themselves say, retire to woods and groves, in
1265 14| Aper for having not yet retired from the disputes of the
1266 13| lead me to their sacred retreats, and to their fountains
1267 36| their favour as soon as they returned. The praetorship and the
1268 35| there is no such thing as reverence, for no one enters it who
1269 8 | State esteems and almost reverences them. Vespasian indeed,
1270 35| themselves, they are the reverse of beneficial. Two kinds
1271 3 | you taken up the book to revise it more carefully, and,
1272 36| seemed, was loaded with great rewards. For the more powerful a
1273 14| simply on law-business and rhetorical studies, also engage in
1274 40| There were some orators at Rhodes and a host of them at Athens,
1275 25| terse, Asinius has the finer rhythm, Caesar greater brilliancy,
1276 34| refuted by the judge, or ridiculed by the opponent, or, last
1277 39| be thought trifling and ridiculous; but I will say it even
1278 18| and others whom we may rightly call “ancients.” These indeed
1279 35| controversial is assigned to riper scholars, and, good heavens!
1280 34| they lack opponents and rivals, who fought with actual
1281 7 | I was presented with the robe of a senator, or when, as
1282 22| merely be sheltered by a roof sufficient to keep off rain
1283 39| our speeches by the little rooms and offices in which nearly
1284 20| reproduce the gestures of Roscius or Ambivius. So again the
1285 36| say, passed nights on the Rostra; hence, prosecutions of
1286 20| law-court the harshness and roughness of antiquity, than they
1287 6 | assembling and gathering round him in a circle, and taking
1288 22| digressions; he is slow to rouse himself, and seldom warms
1289 31| who knows what anger is, rouses or soothes the anger of
1290 21| become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
1291 27| successive steps of the ruin and decay of eloquence. ~
1292 19| very few had studied the rules of rhetoricians or the dogmas
1293 10| to a few. When does the rumour of the very choicest readings
1294 9 | troublesome affair, he will run to Secundus here, or to
1295 26| fame, glory, and genius are sacrificed by many to the boast that
1296 5 | terrible, he baffled the sagacious but untrained wisdom of
1297 21| s speech for Decius the Samnite, or that of Brutus for King
1298 11| Vatinius by which even the sanctities of culture were profaned,
1299 10| playfulness of the elegy, the satire of the iambic, the wit of
1300 21| one-and-twenty volumes, scarcely satisfies me in one or two short speeches.
1301 9 | more goes back to his home saved from danger and bound to
1302 21| uncouth sentiments, they savour of antiquity. No one, I
1303 9 | room, hires benches, and scatters programmes. Even if his
1304 39| the defence of Cornelius, Scaurus, Milo, Bestia, and Vatinius,
1305 19| supposed to have caught a scent of philosophy, and who introduced
1306 21| on account of his vast schemes and many occupations, for
1307 30| useful lessons of ethical science, the movements and causes
1308 40| not spare even a Publius Scipio, or a Sulla, or a Cneius
1309 32| s decrees, they actually scoff at the civil law, while
1310 13| to Domitius Aper on the score of a dignified life or an
1311 13| my tomb be not gloomy and scowling, but bright and laurel-crowned.
1312 27| my own part I shall not scruple to mention men by name,
1313 28| a disgraceful act. With scrupulous piety and modesty she regulated
1314 22| offensive and tasteless scurrility; he must vary the structure
1315 3 | Maternus, and found him seated with the very book which
1316 6 | the uneducated; the more secret, known only to the advocate
1317 31| are whose assent is more secured by an incisive and terse
1318 40| it is the companion of sedition, the stimulant of an unruly
1319 40| courts, respect for merit, or seemly behaviour in the magistrates,
1320 28| once with the whole heart seize on every noble lesson. Whatever
1321 22| slow to rouse himself, and seldom warms to his subject, and
1322 26| would offend many, if he selected a few. For there is scarce
1323 22| who applied a principle of selection to words, and art to composition.
1324 34| say anything foolish or self-contradictory without its being refuted
1325 41| have lacked moderation and self-control. As it is, seeing that no
1326 17| with whom the ears of the self-same men might have made acquaintance,
1327 7 | presented with the robe of a senator, or when, as a new man,
1328 5 | oppose the other day to the senators in their fury? Armed with
1329 5 | usually done by upright and sensible judges, who excuse themselves
1330 21| they did write poems, and sent them to libraries, with
1331 18| But I shall come to them separately after a while; now I have
1332 15| the other, than that which separates Afer, Africanus, or yourselves
1333 13| perils, but I prefer Virgil’s serene, calm, and peaceful retirement,
1334 29| infant to a little Greek servant-girl who is attended by one or
1335 12| Aper, it is a device to serve as a weapon. But the happy
1336 13| they are never thought servile enough by those who rule,
1337 23| of Aufidius Bassus, and Servilius Nonianus compared with that
1338 8 | the three hundred million sesterces of the one, although it
1339 39| nearly all cases have to be set forth. Just as a spacious
1340 4 | 4 This severity of yours, replied Maternus,
1341 15| or any other orator who shakes Ephesus or Mitylene with
1342 32| conversation, and unseemly and shameful deficiencies. They are ignorant
1343 29| which lead on by degrees to shamelessness and to contempt for themselves
1344 17| you that they had actually shared once and again in the gifts
1345 37| mightier her antagonist, the sharper the conflicts she has freely
1346 5 | will not allow Maternus to shelter himself behind a number
1347 22| householder, not merely be sheltered by a roof sufficient to
1348 10| back on the refuge which shelters many, the plea that the
1349 5 | prosecution. It is both a shield and a weapon; you can use
1350 20| and ill-shaped tiles, they shine with marble and glitter
1351 26| imitates the art of the actor. Shocking as it ought to be to our
1352 17| and beat back from their shores the arms of Caesar when
1353 32| our souls, now clipped and shorn, without state, without
1354 39| solitude. But the orator wants shouts and applause, and something
1355 36| Rome for the provinces, showed them respect, and courted
1356 32| perceives it, and forthwith showers his praises in the acknowledgment
1357 33| of ancient eloquence in showing you the studies in which
1358 12| beginnings; here is her inmost shrine. In such guise and beauty
1359 22| chronicles. The orator must shun an offensive and tasteless
1360 21| and others in the same sick-room, so to say, who are content
1361 39| question. Frequently he imposes silence on the advocate to hear
1362 21| the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a
1363 12| and bards, men who could sing of good deeds, but not defend
1364 26| given with the tones of the singer, the gestures of the dancer.
1365 26| has contented himself with singling out for disparagement some
1366 34| defence, he was at once singly and alone equal to any case.
1367 2 | appeared in public, from a singular zeal for my profession,
1368 1 | among men, for our time, singularly eloquent, whom, when quite
1369 23| Nonianus compared with that of Sisenna or Varro, and who despise
1370 20| openings of Corvinus? Who will sit out the five books against
1371 32| knowledge of many subjects sits gracefully on us, even when
1372 12| bustle, or with a suitor sitting before one’s door, or amid
1373 17| and Vitellius, and the now six years of the present happy
1374 20| elegance of the descriptive sketches, he is deaf to his eloquence.
1375 19| speech, was praised up to the skies. And no wonder; for this
1376 19| eloquence must resort to new and skilfully chosen paths, in order that
1377 21| who are content with mere skin and bones. Even Calvus,
1378 17| of December, that he was slain. In that same year the Divine
1379 29| commonly the worst of all the slaves, creatures utterly unfit
1380 41| when crimes are so rare and slight, or of defences full of
1381 18| and lax. Cicero again was slightingly spoken of by Calvus as loose
1382 18| bloodless and attenuated, Brutus slovenly and lax. Cicero again was
1383 22| about digressions; he is slow to rouse himself, and seldom
1384 23| of mental worry. It is a small matter not to be ill; I
1385 11| good-humouredly with something of a smile. I was preparing to attack
1386 31| attracted by a diffuse and smoothly flowing speech, appealing
1387 15| is old and antique and in sneering at and disparaging the culture
1388 26| of Caius Gracchus or the sobriety of Lucius Crassus to the
1389 9 | worthy result, must leave the society of his friends, and the
1390 18| lofty; Corvinus again is softer and sweeter and more finished
1391 20| poetic beauty, not indeed soiled with the old rust of Accius
1392 37| Yet war produces more good soldiers than peace. Eloquence is
1393 33| if any one thinks this somewhat obscure, and distinguishes
1394 28| children. Every citizen’s son, the child of a chaste mother,
1395 28| and reared the greatest of sons. The strictness of the discipline
1396 14| could wish you had come sooner, for you would have been
1397 31| what anger is, rouses or soothes the anger of a judge, the
1398 12| the fame of Euripides or Sophocles is bounded by a limit not
1399 31| biassed, the envious, the sorrowful, or the trembling, will
1400 32| glorious retinue over our souls, now clipped and shorn,
1401 23| Fortune’s wheel” and “Verrine soup,” I do not care to ridicule,
1402 31| nor vices. These are the sources whence flows the greater
1403 6 | must be bestowed on the sowing and cultivation of some
1404 16| Demosthenes. If you measure this space of time by the frailty of
1405 39| be set forth. Just as a spacious course tests a fine horse,
1406 10| they visit the capital from Spain or Asia, to say nothing
1407 40| the good speakers did not spare even a Publius Scipio, or
1408 37| is that in which we are spared such sufferings, still,
1409 40| have we ever heard of at Sparta or at Crete? A very strict
1410 9 | is if Agamemnon or Jason speaks eloquently in your composition.
1411 13| happened to be present as a spectator, just as to Augustus himself.
1412 19| one of their days by his speech-making. Then too they highly esteemed
1413 36| disgrace to seem mute and speechless. Shame therefore quite as
1414 42| the day were not almost spent. It shall be, said Maternus,
1415 14| defence, was uncommonly spirited, and more like poetry than
1416 36| transferred to others, or to seem spiritless and incapable of office
1417 41| or of defences full of spiteful insinuation and exceeding
1418 8 | It is these honours and splendours, aye and substantial wealth,
1419 12| had contaminated. Oracles spoke under these conditions.
1420 18| Cicero again was slightingly spoken of by Calvus as loose and
1421 6 | plants, yet those which grow spontaneously are the more pleasing. ~
1422 28| first began in Rome soon spread through Italy, and are now
1423 39| overcoats into which we squeeze, and, so to say, box ourselves
1424 22| There should be no phrase stained, so to speak, with rust;
1425 1 | we cannot reach the same standard, or of our tastes, if we
1426 34| all advocates of their own standing in a multitude of cases
1427 16| of the heavens and of the stars at any particular moment
1428 9 | whole life (for this was the starting-point of his entire argument),
1429 17| as his freedman Tiro has stated, on the 5th of December,
1430 4 | cultivate a more sacred and more stately eloquence. ~
1431 40| tradition says, in both those states. Nor do we know of the existence
1432 8 | busts, inscriptions, and statues hold but a very poor place.
1433 6 | there is a solidity and steadfastness in his satisfaction, just
1434 34| rise from that quarter is steadier, and its growth surer. Undoubtedly
1435 12| first charm mortals, and steal into those virgin hearts
1436 34| who fought with actual steel, not with a wooden sword,
1437 27| perceive the successive steps of the ruin and decay of
1438 40| companion of sedition, the stimulant of an unruly people, a stranger
1439 39| speaker might have been stirred and kindled by the mere
1440 | stop
1441 30| up and overflows out of a store of erudition, a multitude
1442 34| discipline, and his mind was stored with culture, to have him
1443 29| any important work. Their stories and their prejudices from
1444 37| which arose more easily in stormy and unquiet times. Who knows
1445 35| and, good heavens! what strange and astonishing productions
1446 40| stimulant of an unruly people, a stranger to obedience and subjection,
1447 11| appeased me by a sort of stratagem, granting permission to
1448 26| stumbling in his eagerness to strike, he wrangles rather than
1449 3 | more carefully, and, after striking out whatever has given a
1450 17| the battle in which they strove to drive and beat back from
1451 21| entitled, is in the hands of students, especially the second of
1452 2 | our bar. Of both I was a studious hearer in court, and I also
1453 9 | relative or even he himself stumbles into some troublesome affair,
1454 26| weapons he employs, and often stumbling in his eagerness to strike,
1455 40| stranger to obedience and subjection, a defiant, reckless, presumptuous
1456 31| us combativeness, Plato, sublimity, Xenophon, sweetness. Nor
1457 17| Fix at fifty-six years the subsequent rule of the Divine Augustus
1458 1 | of that discussion, those subtle reflections which I heard,
1459 20| that our speeches are less successful because they bring pleasure
1460 27| more easily perceive the successive steps of the ruin and decay
1461 5 | always bring aid to friends, succour to strangers, deliverance
1462 41| day, had some god in fact suddenly changed your lives and your
1463 10| Nicostratus, I should not suffer those giant arms meant by
1464 37| which we are spared such sufferings, still, when they did occur,
1465 2 | had a pure, terse, and a sufficiently fluent style, while Aper,
1466 30| elegance, and persuasiveness, suitably to the dignity of his subject,
1467 12| midst of bustle, or with a suitor sitting before one’s door,
1468 21| phrases and the periods, and suits the ear of the critic, whence
1469 40| even a Publius Scipio, or a Sulla, or a Cneius Pompeius, and
1470 10| genius might carry you to the summit of eloquence, you prefer
1471 10| throwing of the quoit, so now I summon you from the lecture-room
1472 41| wrong, an orator would be as superfluous among its innocent people
1473 8 | cause. Its inspiration and superhuman power have throughout all
1474 1 | old times, maintained the superiority of the eloquence of our
1475 37| when they did occur, they supplied a grand material for the
1476 3 | the Cato Thyestes shall supply in my next reading. This
1477 36| vote in the senate without supporting their opinion with ability
1478 2 | genius did not depend on any supports from pursuits alien to his
1479 19| Apollodorus. Any one who was supposed to have caught a scent of
1480 41| plundered and ill-treated? Surely it would be better not to
1481 34| steadier, and its growth surer. Undoubtedly it was under
1482 32| mistress of all the arts, held sway with a glorious retinue
1483 36| not out of power, for they swayed both people and senate with
1484 13| as Virgil says, let “the sweet muses” lead me to their
1485 18| Corvinus again is softer and sweeter and more finished in his
1486 | taking
1487 14| instead of exercising your talents simply on law-business and
1488 10| part of Rome, much less is talked of throughout our numerous
1489 22| must shun an offensive and tasteless scurrility; he must vary
1490 1 | same standard, or of our tastes, if we have not the wish,
1491 34| they were not in want of a teacher of the very best and choicest
1492 12| amid the wretchedness and tears of prisoners, but that the
1493 37| having to speak on a theft, a technical point, a judicial decision,
1494 22| faults of antiquity. He is tedious in his introductions, lengthy
1495 1 | peculiarities of his individual temper and genius. Nor indeed did
1496 20| were to assume that the temples of the present day are weaker,
1497 28| strictness of the discipline tended to form in each case a pure
1498 29| very first fill the child’s tender and uninstructed mind. No
1499 26| except generally and in terms common to all, fearing,
1500 5 | with this, and consequently terrible, he baffled the sagacious
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