De Oratore (On the Orator) is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BC. It is set in 91 BC, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before the Social War...
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Writings of Cicero (section De Oratore)
De Oratore, Books 1–2. II. De Oratore, Book 3. De Fato, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Partitione Oratoria. 1985. Leeman, D. H. Pinkster, et al. De Oratore Libri...
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Magistra vitae is a Latin expression, used by Cicero in his De Oratore as a personification of history, means "life's teacher". Often paraphrased as Historia...
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Scipionic Circle (section In De oratore)
the two dialogues, a young man in De re publica and an old man, the father-in-law and teacher of Crassus, in De oratore." Terence, Carthaginian-born playwright...
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Ioci (section Ioci in De Oratore)
important use of iocī in terms of rhetoric was Cicero's use of it in De Oratore. It is not exactly a joke or humor used in a rhetorical way, but a blanket...
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rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria). Many memory contest champions...
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instruct, teach, or point out. Cicero first introduced this term in his book De Oratore. Cicero wrote this book in 55 BC as a dialogue to describe the ideal speaker...
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the main speakers in Cicero's dramatic dialogue on the art of oratory De Oratore, set just before Crassus' death in 91 BC. He was considered the greatest...
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De Oratore, II.40 Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, 1.13.3 Polybius, The Histories, 34, 15.7, 16.2 Gellius, Attic Nights, 2.20.4 Cicero De Oratore,...
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Baldassare Castiglione (redirect from Balthasar de Castiglione)
celebrated treatise De Officiis ("The Duties of a Gentleman"), well known throughout the Middle Ages, and even more so from his De Oratore, which had been...
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