1-dogma | dolab-neat | neede-terri | terro-zeal
Caput
1501 5 | he is an actual fear and terror, himself the while secure
1502 39| Just as a spacious course tests a fine horse, so the orator
1503 8 | may seem that they must thank their eloquence for having
1504 37| between having to speak on a theft, a technical point, a judicial
1505 34| broad daylight, in the very thick of the conflict, where no
1506 19| himself, and, so far from thinking that they ought to wait
1507 16| Nestor, whose time is about thirteen hundred years before our
1508 20| or the brilliancy of the thoughts, or the grace and elegance
1509 17| the state; add Tiberius’s three-and-twenty years, the four years or
1510 19| scarce a bystander in the throng who, if not fully instructed,
1511 6 | to see his house always thronged and crowded by gatherings
1512 11| so now I have resolved to throw off the yoke of my labours
1513 17| Augustus over the state; add Tiberius’s three-and-twenty years,
1514 20| rough blocks and ill-shaped tiles, they shine with marble
1515 19| that they ought to wait till he chooses to speak on the
1516 24| full and varied was his tirade against the ancients! What
1517 17| and Pansa, as his freedman Tiro has stated, on the 5th of
1518 1 | very name of orator. That title indeed we apply only to
1519 4 | causes, at which I have toiled enough, and more than enough,
1520 8 | in his old age and most tolerant of truth, knows well that
1521 20| 20 Who will now tolerate an advocate who begins by
1522 13| and let the statue over my tomb be not gloomy and scowling,
1523 25| there is the same healthy tone of eloquence. Take into
1524 26| compositions are given with the tones of the singer, the gestures
1525 31| rhetoricians, or to exercise the tongue and the voice in fictitious
1526 19| speaker’s credit, if he took up one of their days by
1527 36| each case the state was torn asunder, but the eloquence
1528 24| and passion? With what a torrent, what a rush of eloquence
1529 41| unfortunate apply to us? What town puts itself under our protection
1530 33| indicated, so to say, its traces and outlines. You have indeed
1531 10| other arts not merely your tragedian’s buskin or the measures
1532 11| labours at the bar, and for trains of followers on my way to
1533 37| I think, eleven books of Transactions, and three of Letters. From
1534 16| to profound learning and transcendent ability have added reflection
1535 36| see hereditary connections transferred to others, or to seem spiritless
1536 36| brought to trial, and feuds transmitted to whole families; hence,
1537 30| of studying at Rome, he travelled through Achaia and Asia
1538 31| with those studies which treat of good and evil, of honour
1539 23| you invent, order in the treatment of your subject, fullness,
1540 31| envious, the sorrowful, or the trembling, will understand different
1541 13| heart. Let me no longer tremblingly experience the madness and
1542 6 | audience, not without some tremblings at heart, the result of
1543 39| and the people in their tribes and deputations from the
1544 7 | occasions I seem to rise above tribunates, praetorships, and consulships,
1545 7 | was elected quaestor, or tribune, or praetor, than on those
1546 29| assiduous court and cunning tricks of flattery. ~
1547 39| going to say will be thought trifling and ridiculous; but I will
1548 2 | listen diligently to their trivial talk, their more serious
1549 9 | himself stumbles into some troublesome affair, he will run to Secundus
1550 20| the speeches for Marcus Tullius and Aulus Caecina? In our
1551 13| Let me not be aroused by a tumult of morning visitors, or
1552 7 | mob and the men with the tunic oftener speak of by name
1553 18| who thought him inflated, turgid, not concise enough, but
1554 16| and if that year embraces twelve thousand nine hundred and
1555 17| years or less of Caius, the twenty-eight years of Claudius and Nero,
1556 34| Asinius Pollio in their twenty-first year, Calvus, when very
1557 18| must first observe that the types and varieties of eloquence
1558 35| declamation. Thus the reward of a tyrannicide, or the choice of an outraged
1559 16| ages ago; I have in my eye Ulysses and Nestor, whose time is
1560 33| knew, with which we are unacquainted, I wish also to be told
1561 38| period of long rest, of unbroken repose for the people and
1562 14| suited a poet’s defence, was uncommonly spirited, and more like
1563 19| of the past, ignorant and uncultured as they were, patiently
1564 16| be condemned, unheard and undefended, by this conspiracy of yours.
1565 5 | evident that one side has an undue influence with them. Who
1566 18| not concise enough, but unduly diffuse and luxuriant, in
1567 6 | to the sight even of the uneducated; the more secret, known
1568 19| wonder; for this was new and unfamiliar, and even of the orators
1569 29| slaves, creatures utterly unfit for any important work.
1570 41| wish. Who but the guilty or unfortunate apply to us? What town puts
1571 34| always changing, made up of unfriendly as well as of admiring critics,
1572 18| unpolished, awkward, and ungainly, and I wish that your favourite
1573 16| our age to be condemned, unheard and undefended, by this
1574 29| fill the child’s tender and uninstructed mind. No one in the whole
1575 5 | from long friendship and uninterrupted intercourse than Saleius
1576 16| cannot bear with patience our union on behalf of the merits
1577 40| neither peace in the forum, unity in the senate, order in
1578 28| Secundus and Aper, are they unknown, though you assign me the
1579 | unlike
1580 18| These indeed are rough, unpolished, awkward, and ungainly,
1581 26| ranked before Cicero, but unquestionably second to Gabinianus. ~
1582 37| more easily in stormy and unquiet times. Who knows not that
1583 16| who has a better claim to unravel it than yourself, you who
1584 40| sedition, the stimulant of an unruly people, a stranger to obedience
1585 14| he asked, come among you unseasonably, while you are engaged in
1586 40| vigorous eloquence, just as an untilled field yields certain herbage
1587 5 | baffled the sagacious but untrained wisdom of Helvidius Priscus,
1588 14| that their conversation was unusually serious. Have I, he asked,
1589 11| will. For hitherto I have upheld my position and my safety
1590 | Upon
1591 5 | do as is usually done by upright and sensible judges, who
1592 38| Pollio for the heirs of Urbinia, as they are entitled, and
1593 5 | such encounters. Of its usefulness I say no more. It is a point
1594 6 | readily confessing, amid the utmost affluence of every kind,
1595 11| spirit and with vehemence of utterance, Maternus replied good-humouredly
1596 29| all the slaves, creatures utterly unfit for any important
1597 12| Medea or the Thyestes of Varius. ~
1598 23| with that of Sisenna or Varro, and who despise and loathe
1599 22| tasteless scurrility; he must vary the structure of his sentences
1600 21| beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the
1601 26| the only speaker whom Aper ventured to name, may, if compared
1602 8 | the world as at Capua or Vercellae, where they are said to
1603 7 | prisoner with success, to win a verdict in a cause before the Court
1604 23| like “Fortune’s wheel” and “Verrine soup,” I do not care to
1605 8 | just mentioned, and Crispus Vibius (it is pleasanter to me
1606 1 | venture had I to give my own views instead of being able to
1607 26| his works he shows more violence than vigour. The first to
1608 14| had hardly finished when Vipstanus Messala entered his room,
1609 12| mortals, and steal into those virgin hearts which no vice had
1610 31| be classed neither among virtues nor vices. These are the
1611 32| engaged, and makes itself visible and conspicuous where you
1612 13| aroused by a tumult of morning visitors, or a freedman’s panting
1613 17| year of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, and the now six years of
1614 24| an old practice much in vogue with your philosophical
1615 31| exercise the tongue and the voice in fictitious controversies
1616 41| pre-eminent wisdom? What need of voluntary prosecutions, when crimes
1617 36| for them to give a brief vote in the senate without supporting
1618 19| thinking that they ought to wait till he chooses to speak
1619 22| like a rough building, the wall of which indeed is strong
1620 10| eloquence, you prefer to wander from the path, and though
1621 19| recall him to it when he wanders, protesting that they are
1622 32| orators. If witnesses are wanted, whom shall I name in preference
1623 39| solitude. But the orator wants shouts and applause, and
1624 22| rouse himself, and seldom warms to his subject, and only
1625 28| nature which no vices could warp, and which would at once
1626 10| by nature for combat to waste themselves on the light
1627 34| were familiar to him; the ways of popular assemblies were
1628 20| temples of the present day are weaker, because, instead of being
1629 36| obtain it or from holding it weakly when obtained. ~
1630 17| been fostering the public weal, and the result is that
1631 26| better is it for an orator to wear a rough dress than to glitter
1632 40| does not show itself in a well-governed state. What orator have
1633 6 | he produces a careful and well-prepared speech, there is a solidity
1634 30| Cicero’s wonderful eloquence wells up and overflows out of
1635 40| our own state, while it went astray and wore out its
1636 23| Phrases like “Fortune’s wheel” and “Verrine soup,” I do
1637 11| Nero’s time I broke the wicked power of Vatinius by which
1638 41| where a sound morality and willing obedience to authority prevail.
1639 22| sufficient to keep off rain and wind, but by one to delight the
1640 34| of course, that eloquence wins its great and enduring fame
1641 12| prisoners, but that the soul withdraws herself to abodes of purity
1642 29| conceived in the mother’s womb. When these occupy and possess
1643 2 | speech, and that Aper had won his reputation for eloquence
1644 30| excellent friends, that Cicero’s wonderful eloquence wells up and overflows
1645 34| actual steel, not with a wooden sword, and the audience
1646 40| while it went astray and wore out its strength in factious
1647 23| attained at the cost of mental worry. It is a small matter not
1648 29| one or two, commonly the worst of all the slaves, creatures
1649 37| Not indeed that it was worth the state’s while to endure
1650 37| the battle-field, the more wounds she has inflicted and received,
1651 26| eagerness to strike, he wrangles rather than fights. Still,
1652 12| one’s door, or amid the wretchedness and tears of prisoners,
1653 21| fewer people know that they wrote them. ~ Asinius too, though
1654 31| combativeness, Plato, sublimity, Xenophon, sweetness. Nor will it
1655 13| Pomponius Secundus need not yield to Domitius Aper on the
1656 40| just as an untilled field yields certain herbage in special
1657 11| resolved to throw off the yoke of my labours at the bar,
1658 2 | for my profession, and a youthful enthusiasm which urged me
1659 2 | public, from a singular zeal for my profession, and a
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