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This is true and a core foundation of Roman law Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

And yet...

Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

Imagine being the most boring guy in the Republic and still being remembered for this kind of sentences.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago

    Cicero certainly has some damn good lines! I just wouldn't want to read an entire oratory in the original Latin.

    Considering that the Romans were intensely aware of the spoken rhythm of rhetoric, it may also be just that we are a less oral culture than the Romans were.

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