De oratore - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...less frequently upon a substantive (as here) or a verb.--opes: influence, especially resulting from wealth and high political position.--dignitatem: personal reputation.--Ingenia vero: vero to denote the last term of a climax; cf. 1, 4. The most decisive requisite for success in oratory (natural ability) was not mentioned in 13.--multis rebus, i.e. judging from the eminence and success of many in war, in legislation, and other departments of practical life.--ceteria hominibus: instead of cetero-rum hominum ingeniis, an instance of what is called compa-ratio compendiaria, M. 280, obs. 2. hominibus is repeated because Cicero in comparisons and antithetical statements prefers the full expression of the thought; see Intr. 9, 8. His estimate of the abilities of his countrymen in comparison with other nations is still more strongly stated in Tusc. Disp. I. 1, 1: meum semper indicium fuit oinnia nostros aut invenisse per se sapientius quam Graecos, aut accepta ab eis fecisse meliora; for the development of this thought with respect to the civil law, see 44, 197. 16. miretur: see on 12, mirabilius.--aetatum: periods.--temporum: circumstances; both with reference to 4, 14 and 2, 8.--sed enim: i.e. sed tamen mirum non est; maius enim est hoc quiddam.--ex artibus studiisque: cf. pro Mur. 9, 22: ut hoc omisso ad studiorum atque artium contenti-onem revertamm: 5. in: in spite of; i.e. notwithstanding a condition that would promote oratory; cf. 1,3: in his vel asperitatibus. The concessive sense is afterwards continued by the ab. abs.--quandam: placed before the adjective qualifies the subst.; a peculiar and indeed an incredible magnitude; cf. 19, 85; II. 28, 125: sine quadam in-credibili vi ac facilitate dicendi; pro Mil. 37, 101: est quodam incredibili...