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Plutarch, Cicero, 5.6


nan Now, Cicero's delivery contributed not a little to his persuasive power. Moreover, of those orators who were given to loud shouting he used to say jestingly that they were led by their weakness to resort to clamour as cripples were to mount upon a horse. And his readiness to indulge in such jests and pleasantry was thought indeed to be a pleasant characteristic of a pleader; but he carried it to excess and so annoyed many and got the reputation of being malicious. 6


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cato, m. porcius (the younger) Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 36
character (plutarchs and readers concern with) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
characterisation, of the subjects Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
characterisation, plutarchs self- Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
characterisation Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
cicero, and rhetoric vs. action Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
cicero, compared with demosthenes Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
cicero Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
contradictions Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
demosthenes (orator), and the balance between rhetoric and action Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
demosthenes (orator), compared with cicero Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
demosthenes (orator) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
experience, of characters (individual and collective) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
experience, plutarchs personal Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
lives Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
orator(y), plutarchs interest in Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
orator(y) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
plancius cn. Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 36
politics, plutarchs dealing with Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
politics, the subjects preoccupation with Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
politics Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
prologue (to plutarchs book) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
readers, critical/resistant Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
rhetoric(al), contrasted with action Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
rhetoric(al), contrasted with ethics Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
rhetoric(al), of the subjects Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
speech(es) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
style/stylistic (interest in)' Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
synkrisis, formal Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 46
verres, c. Pausch and Pieper, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives (2023) 36