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Ciceronianus

Ciceronianus is a treatise written by Desiderius Erasmus and published in 1528. It attacks the style of scholarly Latin written during the early 16th century, which style attempted to ape Cicero's Latin.


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“A speech comes alive only if it rises from the heart, not if it floats on the lips.”

in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.
Ciceronianus (1528)

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“We must learn how to imitate Cicero from Cicero himself. Let us imitate him as he imitated others.”

in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.
Ciceronianus (1528)

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