Cicero on Oratory and Orators"Barnes' translation [of De oratore] is the ground work of the present, but every page ... has been carefully corrected, and many pages re-written ... The translation of Cicero's Brutus ... is by E. Jones"--Page 3. Includes index. Cicero's dialogues De oratore -- Brutus. |
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Page 381 - Tibullus, and the Vigil of Venus. Trans, with Notes and Biographical Introduction. To which are added, Metrical Versions by Lamb, Grainger, and others. Frontispiece. CICERO'S Orations. Trans, by CD Yonge, BA 4 vols.
Page 11 - In my opinion, indeed, no man can be an orator / possessed of every praiseworthy accomplishment, unless he has attained the knowledge of everything important, and of all liberal arts, for his language must be ornate and copious from knowledge, since, unless there be beneath the surface matter understood and felt by the speaker, oratory becomes an empty and almost puerile flow of words.
Page 348 - Would it have been possible," said I, (addressing myself to Calidius) "that you should speak with this air of unconcern, unless the charge was purely an invention of your own? and, above all, that you, whose Eloquence has often vindicated the wrongs of other people with so much spirit, should speak so coolly of a crime which threatened your life?
Page 44 - I habituated myself to use such words as were less eligible. Afterwards I thought proper, and continued the practice at a rather more advanced age, to translate the orations of the best Greek orators ; by fixing upon which I gained this advantage, that while I rendered into Latin what I had read in Greek, I not only used the best words, and yet such as were of common occurrence, but also formed some words by imitation, which would be new to our countrymen, taking care, however, that they were unobjectionable.
Page 43 - ... since all the arguments relating to the subject on which we write, whether they are suggested by art, or by a certain power of genius and understanding, will present themselves and occur to us, while we examine and contemplate it in the full light of our intellect ; and all the thoughts and words, which are the most expressive of their kind, must of necessity come under and submit to the...
Page 43 - But in my daily exercises I used, when a youth, to adopt chiefly that method which I knew that Caius Carbo, my adversary, generally practised ; which was, that having selected some nervous piece of poetry, or read over such a portion of a speech as I could retain in my memory, I used to declaim upon what I had been reading in other words, chosen with all the judgment that I possessed. But at length I perceived that in that method there was this inconvenience, that Ennius, if I exercised myself on...
Page 9 - ... the whole multitude of the learned, among whom there rarely appears one of the highest excellence, there will be found, if you will but make a careful review of our own list and that of the Greeks, far fewer good orators than good poets. This ought to seem the more wonderful, as attainments in other sciences are drawn from recluse and hidden springs ; but the whole art of speaking lies before us, and is concerned with common usage and the custom and language of all men ; so that while in other...
Page 30 - I accounted him a good speaker, who could express his thoughts with accuracy and perspi- j cuity, according to the ordinary judgment of mankind, before ' an audience of moderate capacity; but I considered him alone eloquent, who could in a more admirable and noble manner amplify and adorn whatever subjects he chose, and who embraced in thought and memory all the principles of everything relating to oratory.