Quotus enim quisque scholasticorum non hac sua persuasione fruitur, ut se ante Ciceronem numeret, sed plane post Gabinianum? At ego non verebor nominare singulos, quo facilius propositis exemplis adpareat quibus gradibus fracta sit et deminuta eloquentia.
Why, almost all our professional rhetoricians plume themselves on their pet conviction that each of them is to be ranked as superior to Cicero, though distinctly inferior to Gabinianus. I shall not hesitate, on the other hand, to name individuals in order to show, by the citation of instances, the successive stages in the decline and fall of eloquence.
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