Cicero certainly has some damn good lines! I just wouldn’t want to read an entire oratory in the original Latin.
Considering that the Romans were intensely aware of the spoken rhythm of rhetoric, it may also be just that we are a less oral culture than the Romans were.
And yet…
Imagine being the most boring guy in the Republic and still being remembered for this kind of sentences.
Cicero certainly has some damn good lines! I just wouldn’t want to read an entire oratory in the original Latin.
Considering that the Romans were intensely aware of the spoken rhythm of rhetoric, it may also be just that we are a less oral culture than the Romans were.