Brutus
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~83.600 palabras · 397 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APACicerón. (n.d.). Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished S [Brutus]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/cicero-s-brutus-or-history-of-famous-orators-also-his-orator-or-accomplished-s
- MLACicerón. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished S [Brutus]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/cicero-s-brutus-or-history-of-famous-orators-also-his-orator-or-accomplished-s.
- ChicagoCicerón. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished S [Brutus]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/cicero-s-brutus-or-history-of-famous-orators-also-his-orator-or-accomplished-s.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
La traducción inglesa que reúne en un solo volumen el «Brutus» y el «Orator», las dos obras retóricas del 46 a. C.
Contexto e historia
Las dos obras nacieron juntas y este volumen las mantiene juntas: el «Brutus» es la historia de la oratoria romana, orador por orador, escrita cuando César ya era dictador y los tribunales no decidían nada; el «Orator» es el retrato del orador perfecto que Cicerón admite que nunca ha existido, con los tres estilos —probar, deleitar, conmover— y la gran discusión final sobre el ritmo de la prosa. Ambas son respuesta a los aticistas jóvenes que lo acusaban de hinchado, y ambas están dedicadas a Bruto. Esta versión es para el lector; los originales latinos de una y otra también están en el catálogo, y la citación académica debe apuntar a ellos.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
of the Oracle, which promised the supremacy to him who should first salute his mother? That Brutus, who concealed the most consummate abilities under the appearance of a natural defect of understanding? Who dethroned and banished a powerful monarch, the son of an illustrious sovereign? Who settled the State, which he had rescued from arbitrary power, by the appointment of an annual magistracy, a regular system of laws, and a free and open course of justice? And who abrogated the authority of his colleague, that he might rid the city of the smallest vestige of the _regal_ name?--Events, which could never have been produced without exerting the powers of Persuasion!--We are likewise informed that a few years after the expulsion of the Kings, when the Plebeians retired to the banks of the Anio, about three miles from the city, and had possessed themselves of what is called The _sacred_ Mount, M. Valerius the dictator appeased their fury by a public harangue; for which he was afterwards rewarded with the highest posts of honour, and was the first Roman who was distinguished by the surname of _Maximus_. Nor can L. Valerius Potitus be supposed to have been destitute of the powers of utterance, who, after the odium which had been excited against the Patricians by the tyrannical government of the _Decemviri_, reconciled the people to the Senate, by his prudent laws and conciliatory speeches. We may likewise suppose, that