Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 74

haec si minus apta videntur huic sermoni, Brute, Attico adsigna, qui me inflammavit studio inlustrium hominum aetates et tempora persequendi. Ego vero, inquit Brutus, et delector ista quasi notatione temporum et ad id quod instituisti, oratorum genera distinguere aetatibus , istam diligentiam esse accommodatam puto.

"If these matters seem insufficiently suited to our conversation, Brutus, charge them to Atticus, who inflamed me with enthusiasm for tracing the ages and dates of illustrious men." "For my part," said Brutus, "I both enjoy this chronological notation, as it were, and think that such precision is well suited to your undertaking of distinguishing the kinds of orators by their periods."

«Si ces détails te semblent peu appropriés à notre conversation, Brutus, attribues-en la faute à Atticus, qui m'a enflammé du désir de rechercher les âges et les époques des hommes illustres.» «Pour ma part, répondit Brutus, cette sorte de notation chronologique me plaît, et je pense qu'une telle exactitude convient au dessein que tu as formé de distinguer les genres d'orateurs selon les âges.»