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Cornelius Tacitus, A Dialogue on Oratory (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), chapter 17 (search)
But I
pass to the Latin orators. Among them, it is not, I imagine, Menenius
Agrippa, who may seem ancient, whom you usually prefer to the speakers of
our day, but Cicero, Caelius, Calvus, Brutus, Asinius, Messala. Why you
assign them to antiquity rather than to our own times, I do not see. With
respect to Cicero himself, it was in the consulship of Hirtius and Pansa, as
his freedman Tiro has stated, on the 5th of December, that he was slain. In
that same year the Divine Augustus elected himself and Quintus Pedius
consuls in the room of Pansa and Hirtius. Fix at fifty-six years the
subsequent rule of the Divine Augustus over the state; add Tiberius's
three-and-twenty years, the four years or less of Caius, the twenty-eight
years of Claudius and Nero, the one memorable long year of Galba, Otho, and
Vitellius, and the now six years of the present happy reign, during which
Vespasian has been fostering the public weal, and the result is that from
Cicero's death to our day is a
Cornelius Tacitus, A Dialogue on Oratory (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), chapter 25 (search)