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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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