[243] Quint., lib. iii., 1: "Praecipuum vero lumen sicut eloquentiae, ita praeceptis quoque ejus, dedit unicum apud nos specimen orandi, docendique oratorias artes, M. Tullius." And in Tacitus, De Oratoribus, xxx.: "Ita ex multa eruditione, ex pluribus artibus," he says, speaking of Cicero, "et omnium rerum scientia exundat, et exuberat illa admirabilis eloquentia; neque oratoris vis et facultas, sicut ceterarum rerum, angustis et brevibus terminis cluditur; sed is est orator, qui de omni quaestione pulchre, et ornate, et ad persuadendum apte dicere, pro dignitate rerum, ad utilitatem temporum, cum voluptate audientium possit." This has not the ring of Tacitus, but it shows equally well the opinion of the day. [244] De Oratore, lib. i., ca. xi. [245] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xxv. [246] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xliv. [247] Ibid., lib. i., ca. lii. [248] Ibid., lib. i., ca. lx. [249] De Oratore, lib. ii., ca. i. [250] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. vii. [251] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xv. [252] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxiv. [253] De Oratore, lib. ii., ca. xxvii.: "Ut probemus vera esse ea, quae defendimus; ut conciliemus nobis eos, qui audiunt; ut animos eorum, ad quemcumque causa postulabit motum, vocemus." [254] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xliv. [255] De Oratore, lib. ii., ca. lxviii. [256] De Oratore, lib. iii., ca. liv. [257] Ibid., lib. iii., ca. lv. [258] Brutus, ca. xii. [259] Ibid., ca. xvii. [260] Ibid., ca. xxxviii. [261] Ibid., ca. l. [262] Ibid., ca. lvii. [263] Ibid., ca. lxxv. [264] Brutus, ca. xciii. [265] De Divinatione, lib. ii., 1. [266] Orator, ca. ii. [267] Orator, ca. xxvi. [268] Ibid., ca. xxviii. [269] Ibid., ca. xxxvi. Here his language becomes very fine. [270] Ad. Att., lib. xiv., 20. [271] Topica, ca. 1: "Itaque haec quum mecum libros non haberem, memoria repetita, in ipsa navigatione conscripsi, tibique ex itinere misi." [272] Quint., lib. xi., 3. The translations of these epithets are "open, obscure, full, thin, light, rough, shortened, lengthened, harsh, pliable, clear, clouded." [273] Brutus, ca. xxxviii. [274] De Oratore, lib. i., ca. liii. [275] Academica, ii., lib. i., ca. iii. [276] Ibid., i., lib. ii., ca. vii. [277] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xii. [278] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxix. [279] Academica, i., lib. ii., ca. xxxvii. [280] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxxix. [281] Pro Murena, ca. xxix. [282] De Finibus, lib. i., ca. iii. [283] Ibid., lib. i., ca. v. [284] De Finibus, lib. ii., ca. xxx. [285] De Finibus, lib. iii., ca. xxii. [286] De Finibus, lib. iv., ca. 1. [287] De Finibus, lib. v., ca. ii. [288] Ibid., lib. v., ca. xix. [289] Ibid., lib. v., ca. xxiii. [290] Epis., lib. i., 1, 14. [291] Tus. Disp., lib. v., ca. xi. [292] Tus. Disp., lib. i., ca. xxx. [293] De Natura Deo., lib. i., ca. iv. [294] Ibid., lib. i., ca. ix. [295] Ibid., lib. i., ca. xiv.