[28] In the year 92 Crassus attempted with his colleague Domitius by censorial pronouncement to discourage the growth of Latin schools of rhetoric. It is difficult to take seriously the recent hypothesis that this was an aristocratic attack upon democratic schools. Cicero’s interpretation that the new Latin school was objectionable because it trained speakers without the cultural education in literature, philosophy, and history, which Greek rhetoricians usually required, seems adequate. Our own insistence that law schools require a college degree for entrance would then be analogous. [29] Cic., _De Orat._ ii. 77 ff. Cicero, who dislikes to confess that good oratory can arise out of native endowments, accords Antonius some education, because he once conversed with the Athenian professors for a few days on his way to the province! The _Brutus_, which attempts to give genuine history, represents Antonius as a self-made man. [30] _De Orat._ i. 105. [31] _Ibid._, ii. 88, 97 ff. _Brutus_ 202, 276, 286, _Orat._ 99, 143, 214. [32] _De Orat._ iii. 131 and 124. [33] _Orator_, 191 ff. When in _Orat._ 213 Cicero attempts to analyze the measures of Carbo his theory fails him. Again in 217, when he enumerates the feet that Greek theory allowed he fails to notice that his own feeling for Latin rhythms demanded a cretic before all of them. Indeed his selection of passages from his own orations in 210 is faulty (see Kroll’s commentary). In fact his usage is far truer to the genius of Latin than his theory. It is probable that Tyrannio, with whom he discussed Greek accents and rhythms during this period (_ad Att._ xii. 6, 2—about June 46) misled him. We need also to bear in mind Cicero’s statements that the ear unconsciously operates in selecting good rhythms (_Brutus_, 34) and that the tendency to seek balance—a very old quality of native Latin verse—also produces rhythm (doubtless because of the paenultimate law) (_Orator_, 167, 220). Needless to say, what compelled Cicero to shape clausulae somewhat unlike those of Isocrates was the stress-accent of Latin operating under the penultimate law. [34] _Orator_, 224. [35] This in turn tends to produce measured prose rhythm in Latin, _Orat._ 167, 220. [36] _Brutus_ 69. He adds that uneducated peasants often use metaphors, _Orat._ 81. [37] _De Orat._ i. 105 _non Graeci loquacitatem sine usu neque ex scholis cantilenam requirunt_; ii. 77-84. Cicero made a summary of the rules in his youth (the _De Inventione_) but none of his speeches follow these rules closely. [38] _Orat._ 102. [39] Gotzes, _De Ciceronis tribus generibus dicendi_. [40] _Orat._ 102 ff. and especially, _Orat._ 24, where he says explicitly: _eloquentiae moderatrix fuit auditorum prudentia_. [41] Hubbell, _The Influence of Isocrates on Cicero_, etc. (Yale, 1913). [42] Tacitus, _Dialogus_ 19, 37, 38. [43] Cicero is well aware of the fact that the suppression of the old political freedom was endangering style: _Brutus_ 21, 324.