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Cicero, De Oratore, 3.214


Quid fuit in Graccho, quem tu melius, Catule, meministi, quod me puero tanto opere ferretur? "Quo me miser conferam? Quo vertam? In Capitoliumne? At fratris sanguine madet. An domum? Matremne ut miseram lamentantem videam et abiectam?" Quae sic ab illo esse acta constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent. Haec ideo dico pluribus, quod genus hoc totum oratores, qui sunt veritatis ipsius actores, reliquerunt; imitatores autem veritatis, histriones, occupaverunt.What was it in Gracchus, whom you, Catulus, remember better, that was so highly extolled when I was a boy? Whither shall I, unhappy wretch, betake myself? Whither shall I turn? To the Capitol? But that is drenched with the blood of my brother! Or to my home, that I may see my distressed and afflicted mother in all the agony of lamentation? These words, it was allowed, were uttered by him with such delivery, as to countenance, voice, and gesture, that his very enemies could not restrain their tears. I dwell the longer on these particulars, because the orators, who are the deliverers of truth itself, have neglected this whole department, and the players, who are only the imitators of truth, have taken possession of it. [LVII.]


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1. Cicero, De Oratore, 3.216 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.216. Omnis enim motus animi suum quendam a natura habet vultum et sonum et gestum; corpusque totum hominis et eius omnis vultus omnesque voces, ut nervi in fidibus, ita sot, ut a motu animi quoque sunt pulsae. Nam voces ut chordae sunt intentae, quae ad quemque tactum respondeant, acuta gravis, cita tarda, magna parva; quas tamen inter omnis est suo quoque in genere mediocris, atque etiam illa sunt ab his delapsa plura genera, leve asperum, contractum diffusum, continenti spiritu intermisso, fractum scissum, flexo sono extenuatum inflatum;
2. Cicero, Letters, 14.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Cicero, Letters, 14.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Cicero, Letters, 14.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Cicero, Letters, 14.10 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6. Plutarch, Tiberius And Gaius Gracchus, 17 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
abiectus Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
atticus, t. pomponius Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
body, body language Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 57, 58
body Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 57, 58
c. iulius caesar Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
c. sempronius gracchus Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
c. suetonius tranquillus Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
catulus, q. lutatius (cos. 102 bce) Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
character Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 58
citation, as creative adaptation Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
comedy, roman Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 57
comedy Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 57
dio cassius Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
dramatis personae, pelias Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
emotions Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 58
ennius, medea Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
ennius Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
euripides Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
facial expression Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 58
fragments, downgrading of Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
fragments, incerta Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
funeral Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
gestures Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 58
gracchus, c. (tr. pl. 123-122 bce) Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
grief, mourning Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
jocelyn, henry Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
l. appuleius saturninus Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
lamentor Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 120
livy Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
m. tullius cicero Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
mark antony (triumvir) Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
memory Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
mourning, grief Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
nature Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 58
nonverbal behaviour Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 57
optimates, populares Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
oratory Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
p. clodius pulcher Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
plautus, t. maccius Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 230
plutarch Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
populares, optimates Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
ps.-asconius Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 230
republic, the roman, memory and trauma Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
sallust (c. sallustius crispus) Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 230
senate, senators Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
senatus consultum de cn. pisone patre Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
tears Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
terence (p. terentius afer) Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 230
tiberius, emperor Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
tribunate, tribunes Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
truth' Serafim and Papioannou, Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III (2023) 58
tyranny, tyrant, autocracy, autocrat Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 246
vergil (p. vergilius maro) Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 230