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A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

by Cornelius Tacitus

The Dialogus de oratoribus is a short work attributed to Tacitus, in dialogue form, on the art of rhetoric. Its date of composition is unknown, though its dedication to Lucius Fabius Justus places its publication around 102 AD.

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English

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Roman

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102 AD

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Cornelius Tacitus

Roman Empire

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age o...

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