[269] Ibid., ca. xxxvi. Here his language becomes very fine.
[270] Ad. Att., lib. xiv., 20.
[271] Topica, ca. 1: "Itaque haec quum mecum libros non haberem, memoria repetita, in ipsa navigatione conscripsi, tibique ex itinere misi."
[272] Quint., lib. xi., 3. The translations of these epithets are "open, obscure, full, thin, light, rough, shortened, lengthened, harsh, pliable, clear, clouded."
[273] Brutus, ca. xxxviii.
[274] De Oratore, lib. i., ca. liii.
[275] Academica, ii., lib. i., ca. iii.
[276] Ibid., i., lib. ii., ca. vii.
[277] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xii.
[278] Ibid., lib. ii., ca. xxix.