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It was not,
therefore, without good reason that his own contemporaries spoke of his “sovereignty” at the bar, and
that for posterity the name of Cicero has come to be
regarded not as the name of a man, but as the name
of eloquence itself. Let us, therefore, fix our eyes on
him, take him as our pattern, and let the student realise
that he has made real progress if he is a passionate
admirer of Cicero.
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