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Orator
also: Cicero's Orator, Orator ad M. Brutum
Cicero's rhetorical treatise of 46 BC, dedicated to M. Junius Brutus, setting out the ideal orator's qualities and defending Cicero's own periodic Attic style against the fashionable Atticists. Referenced by Caecina in Fam. 6.7.4.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 6.7 §4 take cover behind Brutus and look for a partner in your excuse
Cicero's Orator (46 BC) is dedicated to M. Junius Brutus and deploys him as an interlocutor or addressee to shield the author from direct criticism of his stylistic judgements; Caecina sees the same nervous hedging in Cicero that he confesses in himself. The Orator was written in the same year as this correspondence.
Mentioned in 41 works (365 mentions)
On Invention
For Publius Quinctius
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II
Against Catiline, Fourth Speech
For Lucius Murena
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason
For Publius Sulla
For Lucius Flaccus
On the Responses of the Haruspices
For Marcus Caelius
On the Orator
- §10 Orator
- §16 Orator
- §19 Orator
- §27 Orator
- §32 Orator
- §34 Orator
- §37 Orator
- §39 Orator
- §46 Orator
- §48 Orator
- §52 Orator
- §54 Orator
- §55 Orator
- §57 Orator
- §64 Orator
- §65 Orator
- §66 Orator
- §69 Orator
- §70 Orator
- §71 Orator
- §72 Orator
- §74 Orator
- §75 Orator
- §79 Orator
- §80 Orator
- §81 Orator
- §82 Orator
- §83 Orator
- §84 Orator
- §85 Orator
- §100 Orator
- §103 Orator
- §105 Orator
- §110 Orator
- §115 Orator
- §122 Orator
- §124 Orator
- §125 Orator
- §126 Orator
- §128 Orator
- §129 Orator
- §130 Orator
- §142 Orator
- §143 Orator
- §150 Orator
- §151 Orator
- §152 Orator
- §175 Orator
- §182 Orator
- §200 Orator
- §201 Orator
- §211 Orator
- §213 Orator
- §214 Orator
- §230 Orator
- §233 Orator
- §235 Orator
- §236 Orator
- §237 Orator
- §239 Orator
- §242 Orator
- §244 Orator
- §247 Orator
- §251 Orator
- §278 Orator
- §282 Orator
- §295 Orator
- §296 Orator
- §297 Orator
- §298 Orator
- §302 Orator
- §307 Orator
- §308 Orator
- §314 Orator
- §338 Orator
- §348 Orator
- §355 Orator
- §359 Orator
- §366 Orator
Ad Atticum 4.16
Ad Familiares 1.9
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.5 (combined with 3.6 as the single SB letter 3.5b)
On the Commonwealth
The Subdivisions of Oratory
For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
On the Laws
Ad Atticum 12.6
Ad Familiares 6.7
Ad Familiares 12.18
Brutus
- §20 Orator
- §26 Orator
- §27 Orator
- §31 Orator
- §32 Orator
- §35 Orator
- §36 Orator
- §40 Orator
- §45 Orator
- §47 Orator
- §49 Orator
- §50 Orator
- §51 Orator
- §56 Orator
- §57 Orator
- §58 Orator
- §59 Orator
- §65 Orator
- §69 Orator
- §74 Orator
- §78 Orator
- §81 Orator
- §82 Orator
- §89 Orator
- §91 Orator
- §93 Orator
- §94 Orator
- §95 Orator
- §96 Orator
- §98 Orator
- §100 Orator
- §102 Orator
- §103 Orator
- §105 Orator
- §108 Orator
- §110 Orator
- §115 Orator
- §116 Orator
- §117 Orator
- §120 Orator
- §122 Orator
- §126 Orator
- §133 Orator
- §136 Orator
- §137 Orator
- §138 Orator
- §140 Orator
- §142 Orator
- §143 Orator
- §146 Orator
- §150 Orator
- §159 Orator
- §163 Orator
- §165 Orator
- §167 Orator
- §169 Orator
- §170 Orator
- §171 Orator
- §173 Orator
- §174 Orator
- §176 Orator
- §177 Orator
- §178 Orator
- §180 Orator
- §181 Orator
- §182 Orator
- §183 Orator
- §184 Orator
- §185 Orator
- §186 Orator
- §187 Orator
- §189 Orator
- §192 Orator
- §197 Orator
- §198 Orator
- §199 Orator
- §200 Orator
- §201 Orator
- §202 Orator
- §203 Orator
- §204 Orator
- §206 Orator
- §207 Orator
- §214 Orator
- §215 Orator
- §216 Orator
- §220 Orator
- §221 Orator
- §222 Orator
- §227 Orator
- §228 Orator
- §231 Orator
- §233 Orator
- §239 Orator
- §246 Orator
- §247 Orator
- §248 Orator
- §250 Orator
- §251 Orator
- §256 Orator
- §258 Orator
- §261 Orator
- §263 Orator
- §264 Orator
- §267 Orator
- §268 Orator
- §269 Orator
- §270 Orator
- §274 Orator
- §276 Orator
- §278 Orator
- §279 Orator
- §283 Orator
- §284 Orator
- §287 Orator
- §290 Orator
- §292 Orator
- §293 Orator
- §294 Orator
- §295 Orator
- §296 Orator
- §297 Orator
- §303 Orator
- §304 Orator
- §305 Orator
- §307 Orator
- §311 Orator
- §315 Orator
- §317 Orator
- §319 Orator
- §322 Orator
- §326 Orator
- §330 Orator
- §332 Orator
- §333 Orator
On the Best Kind of Orators
Orator: To Marcus Brutus
- §2 Orator
- §3 Orator
- §6 Orator
- §7 Orator
- §12 Orator
- §15 Orator
- §22 Orator
- §24 Orator
- §25 Orator
- §31 Orator
- §37 Orator
- §42 Orator
- §43 Orator
- §44 Orator
- §45 Orator
- §47 Orator
- §48 Orator
- §52 Orator
- §53 Orator
- §55 Orator
- §59 Orator
- §61 Orator
- §62 Orator
- §64 Orator
- §65 Orator
- §66 Orator
- §67 Orator
- §68 Orator
- §69 Orator
- §71 Orator
- §74 Orator
- §79 Orator
- §81 Orator
- §83 Orator
- §84 Orator
- §88 Orator
- §90 Orator
- §98 Orator
- §99 Orator
- §103 Orator
- §105 Orator
- §108 Orator
- §113 Orator
- §115 Orator
- §119 Orator
- §125 Orator
- §128 Orator
- §129 Orator
- §143 Orator
- §169 Orator
- §170 Orator
- §172 Orator
- §174 Orator
- §190 Orator
- §191 Orator
- §208 Orator
- §210 Orator
- §219 Orator
- §227 Orator
- §228 Orator
- §232 Orator
- §237 Orator