242 ROMAN PHILOSOPHY. 



oratory succeeded, 1 just as in our own country, the minuet of the last 

 century has been supplanted by the quadrille, and the stately move- 

 ments of Giardini have given way to the brisker and more artificial 

 melodies of Rossini. Corvinus, even before the time of Augustus, had 

 shown himself more elaborate and fastidious in his choice of expres- 

 sions. 2 Cassius Severus, the first who openly deviated from the old 

 style of oratory, introduced an acrimonious and virulent mode of 

 pleading. 3 It now became the fashion to decry Cicero as inflated, 

 languid, tame, and even deficient in ornament ; 4 Mecaenas and Gallio 

 followed in the career of degeneracy ; till flippancy of attack, prettiness 

 of expression, and glitter of decoration prevailed over the bold and 

 manly eloquence of free Rome. 



MSS., EDITIONS, &c., OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. 



I. PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. 

 Editt. Prince. : 



Collected Philosophical Works. Sweynheym and Pannartz. Romse, 1471. 

 De Officiis, De Amicitist, De Senectute, Somnium Scipionis, Paradoxa, Tuscu- 

 lanse Qusestiones, without name or date, but known to be published by 

 Gering, Crantz, and Friburger. Paris, about 1471. 

 De Legibus, Academica, De Finibus. Gorenz. Lips. 1809-13. (This edition 



was intended to comprise the whole of the Philosophical works.) 

 1. RHETORICAL PHILOSOPHY : 



Ed. Princ. Alexandrinus and ^Esulanus. Venet. 1485. Containing De 

 Oratore, Orator, Topica, Partitiones Oratories, De Optimo Genere Oratorum. 

 Reprinted at Venice, 1488 and 1495. 

 First complete edition. Aldus. Venet. 1514. 

 Schiitz. Lips. 1804. 



Wetzel (Opera Rhetorica Minora). Lignitz, 1807. 



Beier and Orelli (Orator, Brutus, Topica, de Optimo Genere Oratorum). 

 Turici, 1830. 



PARTITIONES ORATORIO. 

 Ed. Princ. Fontana. Venet. (?) 1472. 

 (Two other undated editions are supposed by bibliographers to be earlier. One is 



known to have been printed at Naples by Moravus). 

 Gryphius. Lugd. Bat. 1545. 

 Camerarius. Lips. 1549. 

 Sturmius. Strasb. 1565. 

 Minos. Paris, 1582. 



Majoragius and Marcellinus. Venet. 1587. 

 Hauptmann. Lips. 1741. 

 Subsidium : 



Reuschius de Ciceronis Partitionibus Oratoriis. Helmst. 1723. 



DE ORATORE. 

 The first perfect MS. of this work was found at Lodi, hence called Codex Laudensis. 



It is now lost. 

 Ed. Princ. Sweynheym and Pannartz. At the monastery of Subiaco, between 



1465 and 1467. 



1 Dialog. 18. 2 Ibid. 



3 Ibid. 19. 4 Ibid. 18 and 22. Quint, xii. 10. 



