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Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; Also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker By Cicero

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; Also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker

By Cicero

  • Release Date: 2009-07-29
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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As the following Rhetorical Pieces have never appeared before in the English language, I thought a Translation of them would be no unacceptable offering to the Public. The character of the (Marcus Tullius Cicero) is so universally celebrated, that it would be needless, and indeed impertinent, to say any thing to recommend them.
The first of them was the fruit of his retirement, during the remains of the Civil War in Africa; and was composed in the form of a Dialogue. It contains a few short, but very masterly sketches of all the Speakers who had flourished either in Greece or Rome, with any reputation of Eloquence, down to his own time; and as he generally touches the principal incidents of their lives, it will be considered, by an attentive reader, as a concealed epitome of the Roman history.