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Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators

by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE)

3 chapters, about 77,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 500 words
2. BRUTUS, OR THE HISTORY OF ELOQUENCE. 43,600 words
3. THE ORATOR. 33,100 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Honour
• Isocrates
• Metaphor
• Ornament (art)
• Sentence (mathematical logic)
• Thucydides

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