[11] Leo, Gesch. Röm. Lit. 37 ff.
[12] In Thermum. Tuum nefarium facinus pejore facinore operire postulas; succidias humanas facis, tantas trucidationes facis, decem capita libera interficis, decem hominibus vitam eripis, indicta causa, injudicatis, incondemnatis. The passage is packed with excellent examples of anaphora, balance, metaphor, homoeoteleuton and alliteration. Had this been written in 88 B.C. instead of in 188 we should take it as an excellent illustration of the result of Greek rhetorical study. It is, however, just native Latin speech afire with the most vehement Catonian wrath.
[13] Brutus, 67 ff.; modified in 284-6. Cicero had noticed that Cato’s orations were full of imagery; Brutus, 69.
[14] Suet. Rhet. I; Athen. XII, 547.
[15] Fiske, Univ. Wis. Studies, III, 62 ff.
[16] Cicero, Brutus, 82, credits Galba with a lofty style in speeches which somehow failed to survive in the written copies, which reveals as in several instances that Latin style was apt to be primarily pragmatic rather than scholastic (ibid., 137, 138). To Aemilius Lepidus Porcina (fl. about 140) he accords credit for smooth sentence structure (ibid., 131).
[17] Cic. Lael. 96; Pro Murena, 58.
[18] N. Häpke, C. Semproni Gracchi Fragmenta (Munich, 1915). This editor finds a few instances of prose rhythms in Gracchus. I do not think that Gracchus was conscious of them, since they occur in about the same ratio as in Sallust or Caesar, who could hardly be accused of encouraging the rhythmic style.
[19] Meyer, Orat. Rom. Frag., 234.
[20] Ibid. 233.