Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (De Oratore)¶
(2001). Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (De Oratore). Oxford University Press.
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- Delivery (in Rhetoric)
- Cicero ranks it first among the practical arts of oratory, reporting that Demosthenes, when asked what was most important in rhetoric, answered "delivery" three times in succession
This sourceCicero’s De Oratore 3.213: delivery (actio) alone rules in speaking, and Demosthenes is reported to have given it the first, second and third place when asked what mattered most in oratory.
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“Actio, inquam, in dicendo una dominatur; sine hac summus orator esse in numero nullo potest”
- Cicero ranks it first among the practical arts of oratory, reporting that Demosthenes, when asked what was most important in rhetoric, answered "delivery" three times in succession
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