524 foll. Some of the arches of the
supporting arcade are still visible.]
[Footnote 511: _ad Fam_. vii. I. Professor Tyrrell calls this letter a
rhetorical exercise; is it not rather one of those in which Cicero is
taking pains to write, therefore writing less easily and naturally
than usual?]
[Footnote 512: I have used Mr. Shuckburgh's translation, with one or
two verbal changes.]
[Footnote 513: Pliny, _Nat. Hist_. viii. 21.]
[Footnote 514: _de Div_. i. 37. 80. Cp. the story in Plut. _Cic_. 5.]
[Footnote 515: Hor. _Ep_. ii. 82; Quintil. ii. 3. Ill.]
[Footnote 516: Val. Max. viii. 10. 2. Cicero was said to have learnt
gesticulation both from Aesopus and Roscius.--Plut. _Cic_. 5.]
[Footnote 517: Pliny, _N.H._ vii. 128.]
[Footnote 518: _Pro Archia_, 8.]
[Footnote 519: _De Oratore_, i. 28. 129.]
[Footnote 520: _De Oratore_, iii. 27, 59.]
[Footnote 521: A useful succinct account of the literature of
this difficult subject will be found in Schanz, _Gesch. der rom.
Litteratur_, vol.
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