Excerpt from Elements of Rhetoric: Exhibiting a Methodical Arrangement of All the Important Ideas of the Ancient and Modern Rhetorical Writers, Designed for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools
Subsequent to the time of Cato arose Crassus and Ah~ tonias.' It was owing to the latter of these, says Cicero, that Rome might boast herself a rival, even to Greece in the art of eloquence. And in his three books, De Oratore and other rhetorical productions, he attributes the highest commendation to these distinguished orators.
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