# On Oratory 2.95

Cicero, On Oratory, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi037.perseus-lat2, Book 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/on-oratory/2.95

postea quam exstinctis his omnis eorum memoria sensim obscurata est et evanuit, alia quaedam dicendi molliora ac remissiora genera viguerunt. Inde Demochares, quem aiunt sororis filium fuisse Demostheni; tum Phalereus ille Demetrius omnium istorum mea sententia politissimus, aliique horum similes exstiterunt. Quae si volemus usque ad hoc tempus persequi, intellegemus, ut hodie etiam Alabandensem illum Meneclem et eius fratrem Hieroclem, quos ego audivi, tota imitetur Asia, sic semper fuisse aliquem, cuius se similis plerique esse vellent.

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Cicero, On Oratory, ed. Augustus Samuel Wilkins. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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