Primus enim excoluit orationem, primus et verbis delectum adhibuit et compositioni artem; locos quoque laetiores attentavit et quasdam sententias invenit, utique in iis orationibus quas senior iam et iuxta finem vitae composuit, id est, postquam magis profecerat usuque et experimentis didicerat quod  optimum dicendi genus esset.
Cicero was the first to give its proper finish to oratorical style. He was the first to adopt a method of selection in the use of words, and to cultivate artistic arrangement; further, he tried his hand at flowery passages, and was the author of some pointed sayings, at any rate in the speeches which he wrote when well on in years and towards the close of his career, that is to say, when his powers were well developed, and he had learned by experience and practice the qualities of the best type of oratory.
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