Cicero on Oratory and Orators, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notes Historical and Explanatory (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330611470 ISBN 13 : 9781330611470

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2016

Synopsis

Excerpt from Cicero on Oratory and Orators, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notes Historical and Explanatory

The character and qualifications of an orator are so well, and so fully handled in the following work, that it would be the height of presumption to say any thing further on these heads. Our author himself has rested his reputation upon the merits and execution of this performance, and all that is left for a translator, is to endeavour that his original may not be disgraced by the copy, and that the friends of Cicero may not blush at the mean appearance he makes in a modern language. But it is impossible with any propriety to introduce my great author to the public in the following translation, without at the same time acquainting the world with the motives, I had almost said, with the necessity, of the present undertaking.

Men of learning are divided with regard to the merit of translations in general; I shall not pretend to decide upon either side; but I will venture to say, that if the present taste in learning should gain ground, this nation will soon have no other means left of being acquainted with the good sense of the ancients, but through translations.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330611470
• ISBN 13: 9781330611470
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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