De oratore
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Traducción:
- J. S. Watson
- 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:
- ~280.000 palabras · 1341 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APACicerón. (n.d.). De Oratore (On Oratory and Orators) [De oratore] (J. S. Watson, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/de-oratore-on-oratory-and-orators
- MLACicerón. De Oratore (On Oratory and Orators) [De oratore]. Translated by J. S. Watson. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/de-oratore-on-oratory-and-orators.
- ChicagoCicerón. De Oratore (On Oratory and Orators) [De oratore]. Translated by J. S. Watson. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/de-oratore-on-oratory-and-orators.
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
Diálogo sobre qué debe saber un orador. La respuesta de Cicerón es exigente: no le basta la técnica, le hacen falta derecho, historia y filosofía, porque quien no sabe de qué habla no puede hablar bien de nada.
Contexto e historia
Escrito en el 55 a. C. y situado en el 91 a. C., en boca de Craso y Antonio, dos oradores de la generación anterior a los que Cicerón había oído de joven. Lo compuso apartado de la política, y es en parte una enmienda a los manuales de retórica, incluido su propio De inventione de juventud, que él mismo acabó considerando obra verde e insuficiente.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
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!…