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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • De Oratore, Book III is the third part of De Oratore by Cicero. It describes the death of Lucius Licinius Crassus. The characters belong to the generation...
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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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  • orator known for his wit and humour. Cicero published a dialogue called De Oratore, in which Strabo explains why humour is important in speech. He was an...
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    vol. I, pp. 499, 500. Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, 8, c. 1, Brutus, c. 26, 35, De Finibus, i. 3, De Oratore, i. 17, ii. 70, Philippicae, viii. 10, Pro...
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    one passage of De Oratore he explains that Philistus spent his retirement writing history as his otium. He goes on to say in De Oratore Book iii that other...
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  • 20, 23, De Republica i. 14, 15, De Senectute, 14, Laelius de Amicitia, 27, De Officiis, i. 6. Cicero, De Oratore, i. 53, Brutus, 23, Laelius de Amicitia...
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  • the creosote bush family Magistra vitae, Latin expression from Cicero's De Oratore, "history is life's teacher" Non scholae, sed vitae discimus, Latin phrase...
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    (1926) [c. 322 BCE]. Rhetoric. Cicero (1902) [55 BCE]. De Oratore (in Latin). Cicero (1984) [84 BCE]. De Inventione (in Latin). Demosthenes (1939) [c. 322 BCE]...
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  • terms which Philip accepted.[citation needed] James A. Herrick wrote: "In De Oratore, Cicero blames Plato for separating wisdom and eloquence in the philosopher's...
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    François-Alphonse (1901). Histoire politique de la Révolution française: Origines et Développement de la Démocratie et de la République (1789–1804). Librairie...
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    essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic orators Cicero, De Legibus (1842) and De Oratore (1863) Apsinis et Longini Rhethorica (1849). His biography...
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    Cicero de Senectute 12; Livy xxxix. 42; Valerius Maximus ii. 9. § 3; Plutarch Cato Major 17; Cicero De Divinatione i. 16. Livy iv. 24; Cicero de Oratore ii...
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, De Divinatione, De Domo Sua, De Haruspicum Responsis, De Legibus, De Officiis, De Oratore, Divinatio in Quintum Caecilium...
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    Griffin London, Thames and Hudson. Lilar, Suzanne (1967) A propos de Sartre et de l'amour , Paris, Grasset. Lundberg, Phillip (2005). Tallyho – The Hunt...
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    for themselves in order to promote equality. Ioci – humor; see Cicero's De Oratore and his theory of humor. Irony – a deliberate contrast between indirect...
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    sufficiently interested in the theory of his art to produce a second de Oratore” (Gwynn, 242). His theory of education is one area in which Quintilian...
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    perceptions of Islam. Routledge. p. 420. Philippe Bobichon, "Littérature de controverse entre judaïsme et christianisme: Description du corpus et réflexions...
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    Epistulae ad Atticum in 1345 and with the discovery of De oratore, Orator, and Brutus by Gerardo Landriani [de] in 1421. It culminated in Pietro Bembo establishing...
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    brother, Marcus, by Cicero in De Oratore. Marcus Sempronius Musca, mentioned along with his brother, Aulus, by Cicero in De Oratore. Sempronius Musca, scourged...
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  • and simple. He is introduced by Cicero as an interlocutor in the De Oratore and De Natura Deorum (iii.), as a supporter of the principles of the New...
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    Cicero, Academica Priora, Brutus, De Domo Sua, De Lege Agraria contra Rullum, De Legibus, De Officiis, De Oratore, Divinatio in Quintum Caecilium, Epistulae...
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