Nec mirum; erant enim haec nova et incognita, et ipsorum quoque oratorum paucissimi praecepta rhetorum aut philosophorum  placita cognoverant.
And no wonder. All that sort of thing was new and unfamiliar, and very few even of the orators themselves had made acquaintance with the rules of the rhetoricians or the tenets of the philosophers.
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