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Cicero (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Phrases like "Fortune's wheel" and "Verrine
soup," I do not care to ridicule, or that stock ending of every third clause
in all Cicero's speeches, "it would seem to be," brought in as the close of
a period. I have mentioned them with reluctance, omitting several, although
they are the sole peculiarities admired and imitated by those who call
themselves orators of the old school. I will not name any one, as I think it
enough to have pointed at a class. Still, you have before your eyes men who
read Lucilius rather than Horace, and Lucretius rather than Virgil, who have
a mean opinion of the eloquence of Aufidius Bassus, and Servilius Nonianus
compared with that of Sisenna or Varro, and who despise and loathe the
treatises of our modern rhetoricians, while those of Calvus are their
admiration. When these men prose in the old style before the judges, they
have neither select listeners nor a popular audience; in short the client
himself hardly endures them. They are dismal and
Horace (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 23