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Excerpt from Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and BrutusA translation of the Dialogues Dc Oratore was published in 1762, by George Barnes, a Barrister of the Inner Temple. Mr. Barnes's version was made with great care, and, though lea known than Guthrie's, was far superior to it. If he occasionally mistook the sense of his author, he seems to have been always diligent in seeking for it. He added some notes, of which thom deemed worth prmerving are distin guished by the letter B.Barnes's translation is the groundwork of the present; but every page of it has been carefully corrected, and many pages rewritten. The text to which it is made conformable °m that of Orelline, which differs but little from Ellendt's, the more rooeot editor and illustrator of the work, from whom some notes have been borrowed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
