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"Quam cum suavissima et maxima voce legisset, admirantibus omnibus "quanto" inquit "magis miraremini, si audissetis ipsum!""

January 1, 1970

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He read with a charming full voice, and when everyone was applauding, "how much", he asked, "would you have applauded if you had heard the original?" — Book III, Chapter 56 — Note: Cicero was telling the story of Æschines' return to Rhodes, at which he was requested to deliver Demosthenes' defence of Ctesiphon.

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He read with a charming full voice, and when everyone was applauding, "how much", he asked, "would you have applauded if you had heard the original?" — Book III, Chapter 56 — Note: Cicero was telling the story of Æschines' return to Rhodes, at which he was requested to deliver Demosthenes' defence of Ctesiphon.