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De Analogia (Caesar)
Caesar's De Analogia
also: de ratione Latine loquendi, On the Principle of Speaking Latin, de ratione dicendi
Julius Caesar's lost two-book treatise on Latin diction, dedicated to Cicero, in which he declared the choice of words the origin of eloquence and praised Cicero as the foremost and inventor of eloquent resource. Quoted in the Brutus.
Reading notes
- Brutus §251 wrote to you yourself
Caesar's lost treatise De Analogia, on correct Latin diction, dedicated to Cicero; in it he called Cicero the foremost and inventor of eloquent resource. Cicero quotes the dedication verbatim.