SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

Dialogue on Orators · Dialogus de oratoribus

Tacitus

Translated by Alfred John Church

Why has eloquence declined? Four Romans debate poetry, oratory and freedom.

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  • Latin: ed. Henry Furneaux, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi1351.phi003, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Alfred John Church, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi1351.phi003.perseus-eng1). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 3

  1. 11–16
  2. 217–29
  3. 330–41