Illi enim antiquos mirabantur, ipse suorum temporum eloquentiam anteponebat: nec ulla re magis eiusdem  aetatis oratores praecurrit quam iudicio.
While they admired the ancients, he gave the preference to the eloquence of his own day; and it is in taste more than anything else that he outdistances the orators of his period.
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