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What does Ciceronian mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises.
  2. (rhetoric) Eloquent, resembling Cicero’s style.
  3. (rhetoric) With effusive use of antithesis and long sentences.
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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.

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