[251] Pro Planc. 41, 42.
[252] Pro Fonteio, 17.
[253] Vid. his ideal description of an orator, in Orat. 40. Vid. also de clar. Orat. 93, his negative panegyric on his own oratorical attainments.
[254] Orat. 29.
[255] Tusc. Quæst. i. 1; de clar. Orat. 82, etc., de opt. gen. dicendi.
[256] Quinct. x. 1.
[257] De Fin. iii. 1 and 4; Lucull. 6. Plutarch, in Vitâ.
[258] This, which is analogous to his address in pleading, is nowhere more observable than in his rendering the recurrence of the same word, to which he is forced by the barrenness or vagueness of the language, an elegance.
[259] It is remarkable that some authors attempted to account for the invention of the Asiatic style, on the same principle we have here adduced to account for Cicero's adoption of it in Latin; viz. that the Asiatics had a defective knowledge of Greek, and devised phrases, etc., to make up for the imperfection of their scanty vocabulary. See Quinct. xii. 10.
[260] De clar. Orat. 72.