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Molon's Influence on Cicero1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. C. Davies
J. C. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Since Klingner's dissertation it has generally been accepted by Ciceronian scholars that Molon's influence upon Cicero's prose style consisted in his imparting to his pupil no new stylistic ideal but rather moderation in both language and style. According to Cicero (Brutus 325), Molon's style had developed under the teaching of Menecles of Alabanda who, though himself an Asianist, aimed rather at crebrae venustaeque sententiae, a more elegant and concise form of antithesis, parallelism, and stylistic balance.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , December 1968 , pp. 303 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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References

page 303 note 2 Klingner, F., ‘Ciceros Rede für den Schauspieler Roscius. Eine Episode der Entwicklung seiner Kunstprosa’, Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1953.Google Scholar

page 303 note 3 Landgraf, G., De Ciceronis Elocutions in orationibus pro Quinctio et pro Sex. Roscio Amerino conspicua, Würzburg, 1878.Google Scholar

page 303 note 4 Cf. my paper on ‘Phrasal Abundantia in Cicero's speeches’, C.Q. N.s. xviii (1968), 142 ff.Google Scholar

page 309 note 1 I am assuming that licentia and redundantia are largely, if not entirely, synonymous.