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A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

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A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

Cornelius Tacitus and Arthur Murphy

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Rome once produced Cicero; a century later it produced lawyers. Tacitus's dialogue asks what killed the great age of oratory, staging a debate between poetry, advocacy, and the good old days. Arthur Murphy's translation arrives with his full essay on the historian's life and genius. An ancient inquest on eloquence that reads uncomfortably like the news. Join the inquiry.

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18 chapters

  1. 1WORKS
  2. 2CORNELIUS TACITUS;
  3. 3AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,
  4. 4NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, c.
  5. 5ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.
  6. 6A NEW EDITION,
  7. 7IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
  8. 8VOL. VIII.
  9. 91811.
  10. 10A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY,
  11. 11OR THE CAUSES OF CORRUPT ELOQUENCE.
  12. 12VOL. VIII.
  13. 13CONTENTS.
  14. 14A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY, OR THE CAUSES OF CORRUPT ELOQUENCE.
  15. 15NOTES ON THE DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY.
  16. 16CONCLUSION.
  17. 17GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE:
  18. 18INDEX OF THE NAMES OF PLACES, RIVERS, c. MENTIONED IN THESE VOLUMES.
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