Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106–43
b. c. , often calledTully ), the Roman orator, or his orations and writings. - noun A student or an imitator of Cicero.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
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- adjective Of, or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises.
- adjective rhetoric Eloquent, resembling Cicero's style
- adjective rhetoric With effusive use of
antithesis and long sentences.
Etymologies
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The young people of Richmond, Va., have organized a society known as the Ciceronian Musical and Literary Society.
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The young people of Richmond, Va., have organized a society known as the Ciceronian Musical and Literary Society.
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The young people of Richmond, Va., have organized a society known as the Ciceronian Musical and Literary Society.
Social News 1894
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They believed in what President John Quincy Adams's grandson Henry Adams called "the Ciceronian idea of government by the best."
Harlow Giles Unger: When Statesmen Led the Nation Harlow Giles Unger 2011
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They believed in what President John Quincy Adams's grandson Henry Adams called "the Ciceronian idea of government by the best."
Harlow Giles Unger: When Statesmen Led the Nation Harlow Giles Unger 2011
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Hillary could have hit Ciceronian heights and she still wouldn't have done what she needed to do last night: Convince voters that they are wrong to believe in Obama.
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This manner of dress literally embodies the Ciceronian phrase "Let arms to the toga yield" that Piccolomini/Pius II had included in his treatise on an ideal education, composed for the king of Hungary in 1450.62
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Note 25: "The 'places and images' [loci and imagines] scheme of artificial memory — which I call the 'architectural mnemonic,' a term more accurate than Frances Yates's 'Ciceronian mnemonic' and less misleading than the Renaissance's 'the art of memory' — is described most fully in Rhetorica ad Herennium, which is dated 86 – 82 B.C., just after Cicero's De inventione."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Their presence points also to a well-known Ciceronian phrase "Duce virtute comite Fortuna" (Fortune follows the tracks of Virtue), whose message is quite literally ingrained in the architecture of the studioli (Cicero Ad familiares 10.3, I.V. #CLVIII. 27).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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