For people raised on the old, Ciceronian interpretation of classics, this must indeed be disorienting. |
In this century political speechmaking has tended to favor simplicity and conciseness, rendering Ciceronian floweriness less interesting. |
As in The Prince, the point is made by way of an allusion to, and a sarcastic repudiation of, the values of Ciceronian humanism. |
The speech and its Ciceronian conclusion are delivered completely without sentimentality. |
Here was Bruni displaying his rhetorical skills as a Ciceronian orator, conducting a formal exercise in rhetoric and dialectic. |
That last term, with all its Ciceronian resonance, is perhaps the most revealing. |