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Cicero

Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 310

Passage 310 of 334

Canonical reference 310

Latin

perseus-cicero-brutus-lat

commentabar declamitans - sic enim nunc loquuntur - saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cottidie, idque faciebam multum etiam Latine, sed Graece saepius, vel quod Graeca oratio plura ornamenta suppeditans consuetudinem similiter Latine dicendi adferebat, vel quod a Graecis summis doctoribus, nisi Graece dicerem, neque corrigi possem neque doceri.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

I practiced by declaiming, as they now call it, often with Marcus Piso and Quintus Pompeius, or with someone else every day. I did this extensively in Latin too, but more often in Greek, either because Greek speech, supplying more ornaments, produced the habit of speaking similarly in Latin, or because the greatest Greek teachers could neither correct nor teach me unless I spoke Greek.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Je m’exerçais en déclamant, comme on dit aujourd’hui, souvent avec M. Piso et Q. Pompeius, ou chaque jour avec quelqu’un d’autre. Je le faisais beaucoup en latin, mais plus souvent en grec, soit parce que le discours grec, offrant davantage d’ornements, m’habituait à parler de manière semblable en latin, soit parce que les plus grands maîtres grecs ne pouvaient ni me corriger ni m’instruire si je ne parlais pas grec.

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