The Life of Cicero Volume II Part 19

[237] Suetonius, Augustus, 27: "In quo rest.i.tit quidem aliquamdiu collegis, ne qua fieret proscriptio, sed inceptam utroque acerbius exercuit."

[238] Phil., iv., ca. xviii.

[239] In the following list I have divided the latter, making the Moral Essays separate from the Philosophy.

[240] I have given here those treatises which are always printed among the works of Cicero.

[241] De Inventione, lib. ii., 4.

[242] Quintilian, in his Proaemium or Preface: "Oratorem autem inst.i.tuimus illum perfectum, qui esse nisi vir bonus non potest." It seems as though there had almost been the question whether the perfect orator could exist, although there was no question he had never done so as yet.

[243] Quint., lib. iii., 1: "Praecipuum vero lumen sicut eloquentiae, ita praeceptis quoque ejus, dedit unic.u.m apud nos specimen orandi, docendique oratorias artes, M. Tullius."

And in Tacitus, De Oratoribus, x.x.x.: "Ita ex multa eruditione, ex pluribus artibus," he says, speaking of Cicero, "et omnium rerum scientia exundat, et exuberat illa admirabilis eloquentia; neque oratoris vis et facultas, sicut ceterarum rerum, angustis et brevibus terminis cluditur; sed is est orator, qui de omni quaestione pulchre, et ornate, et ad persuadendum apte dicere, pro dignitate rerum, ad utilitatem temporum, c.u.m voluptate audientium possit." This has not the ring of Tacitus, but it shows equally well the opinion of the day.

[244] De Oratore, lib. i., ca. xi.

[245] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xxv.

[246] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xliv.

[247] Ibid., lib. i., ca. lii.

[248] Ibid., lib. i., ca. lx.

[249] De Oratore, lib. ii., ca. i.

[250] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. vii.

[251] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xv.

[252] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxiv.

[253] De Oratore, lib. ii., ca. xxvii.: "Ut probemus vera esse ea, quae defendimus; ut conciliemus n.o.bis eos, qui audiunt; ut animos eorum, ad quemc.u.mque causa postulabit motum, vocemus."

[254] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xliv.

[255] De Oratore, lib. ii., ca. lxviii.

[256] De Oratore, lib. iii., ca. liv.

[257] Ibid., lib. iii., ca. lv.

[258] Brutus, ca. xii.

[259] Ibid., ca. xvii.

[260] Ibid., ca. x.x.xviii.

[261] Ibid., ca. l.

[262] Ibid., ca. lvii.

[263] Ibid., ca. lxxv.

[264] Brutus, ca. xciii.

[265] De Divinatione, lib. ii., 1.

[266] Orator, ca. ii.

[267] Orator, ca. xxvi.

[268] Ibid., ca. xxviii.

[269] Ibid., ca. x.x.xvi. Here his language becomes very fine.

[270] Ad. Att., lib. xiv., 20.

[271] Topica, ca. 1: "Itaque haec quum mec.u.m libros non haberem, memoria repet.i.ta, in ipsa navigatione conscripsi, tibique ex itinere misi."

[272] Quint., lib. xi., 3. The translations of these epithets are "open, obscure, full, thin, light, rough, shortened, lengthened, harsh, pliable, clear, clouded."

[273] Brutus, ca. x.x.xviii.

[274] De Oratore, lib. i., ca. liii.

[275] Academica, ii., lib. i., ca. iii.

[276] Ibid., i., lib. ii., ca. vii.

[277] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xii.

[278] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxix.

[279] Academica, i., lib. ii., ca. x.x.xvii.

[280] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. x.x.xix.

[281] Pro Murena, ca. xxix.

[282] De Finibus, lib. i., ca. iii.

[283] Ibid., lib. i., ca. v.

[284] De Finibus, lib. ii., ca. x.x.x.

[285] De Finibus, lib. iii., ca. xxii.