Authority Cited: Cicero
Author name and dates: Marcus Tullius Cicero (c.106-43 BCE)
BKG Bio-tweet: Most important single influence on Western language & philosophy; SJ uses trans. to illustrate rhetorical use of “climax”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
Author name and dates: Marcus Tullius Cicero (c.106-43 BCE)
BKG Bio-tweet: Most important single influence on Western language & philosophy; SJ uses trans. to illustrate rhetorical use of “climax”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Against Cataline (likely); climax (SJ illustrates def. sense of a figure in rhetoric by a Cicero to Cataline remark; likely a translation from Latin, perhaps from memory)
- Laws; per Yale Vol. 18, p. 90, Cicero's (Tully's) Laws is referred to by SJ in the Dcit. Preface.
- Orator; per Yale Vol. 18, p. 58, Cicero's Orator is referred to by SJ in the 1747 Plan of a Dictionary; [BKG Note: Orator was later translated into English: Cicero's Brutus, or history of famous orators: also, his Orator, or accomplished speaker. Now first translated into English, by E. Jones. Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1776 London : Printed for B. White. The corresponding text, on p. 241 (3rd page of The Orator) of the Jones translation: "While we are striving to overtake the foremost, it is no disgrace to be found among the second class, or even the third."]
- Cicero (no work cited)