De oratore
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Übersetzung:
- J. S. Watson
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
- Umfang:
- ~280.000 Wörter · 1.341 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APACicero. (n.d.). De Oratore (On Oratory and Orators) [De oratore] (J. S. Watson, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/cicero/de-oratore-on-oratory-and-orators
- MLACicero. De Oratore (On Oratory and Orators) [De oratore]. Translated by J. S. Watson. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/cicero/de-oratore-on-oratory-and-orators.
- ChicagoCicero. De Oratore (On Oratory and Orators) [De oratore]. Translated by J. S. Watson. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/cicero/de-oratore-on-oratory-and-orators.
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Wovon es handelt
Ein Dialog darüber, was ein Redner wissen muss. Ciceros Antwort ist anspruchsvoll: Technik genügt nicht, es braucht Recht, Geschichte und Philosophie, denn wer seinen Gegenstand nicht kennt, kann über nichts gut sprechen.
Kontext und Geschichte
Geschrieben 55 v. Chr. und angesiedelt im Jahr 91, im Munde des Crassus und des Antonius, zweier Redner der vorigen Generation, die Cicero in seiner Jugend gehört hatte. Er verfasste ihn aus der Politik verdrängt; es ist zum Teil eine Berichtigung der rhetorischen Handbücher, auch seines eigenen jugendlichen De inventione, das er später für unreif und unzulänglich hielt.
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goyernors, &lae accasation, has bccii repelled ia its attacks the fame and fortune and ease of the wealthy; that the espenses aud tributes levied on the different cities are borne vfith equanimity by all who inhabit the territoriea of those cities; that acceBS to you is most easy; that your ears are open to the complainta of all men ; that no man's poverty or desolatenesa ia osoluded by you, not merely from access to you in pubhc and on the tribunftl, hut even from your house, and your private chamber; that, in short, throughout your whole government, there is nothing severe, nothing cruel; but that everything ia fiiU of clemency, and gentleness, and humanity, IX. 26. Again, how great a benefit is it on your port, that you have delivered Asia from that iniquitous and heavy tax imposed upon it by the acdiles,^ though at the expense of great enmity to us. In truth, if one man of noble birth makes a eomplaiut openly that you, by issuing an edict " that money should not bo voted for the games at Eome," caused him a loss of two hundred sestertia; how great a sum of money must have been paid, if, as had become the custom, it was eiacted in the name of all, whoever they were, that exhibited games at Eomel Although we checked these complunts of our citizens with this design, (which is estolled in Asia, I know not to what extent, and at Bome with no ordinary admiration,) inasmuch as when the cities had voted sums of money to erect a temple and monument in our honour, and when they had done so of their own OKfa-eme good-will, in return for my great services, aud for your eiceaaive kindnesses, and when the law made an exception in our favour by name, providing that " it might be permitted to receive money for a temple and a monumenti" and that which was then given was not likely to perish, but to remain among the ornaments of the temple, so as to appear to have been given, not more for my sake than that of the Roman people and tha inunorla!…