He says that Afer and Julius Africanus were the best orators he had heard, and that he prefers the former to the latter, Quintilian refers to a work of his On Testimony, to one entitled Dicta, and to some of his orations, of which those on behalf of Domitilla, or Cloantilla, and Volusenus Catulus seem to have been the most celebrated.

His orations were cited as authoritative by the First Council of Ephesus in 431.

Various parts of Libanius ' orations may suggest that both sides were justified to some extent while Ammianus blames Julian for " a mere thirst for popularity ".

" ( Castiglione 1. 26 ) The Count reasons that by obscuring his knowledge of letters, the courtier gives the appearance that his “ orations were composed very simply ” as if they sprang up from “ nature and truth than from study and art .” ( 1. 26 ).

A few extracts from the five orations on Chrysostom were preserved by Photius ( codex 273 ).

Before his exile, Libanius was a friend of the emperor Julian, with whom some correspondence survives, and in whose memory he wrote a series of orations ; they were composed between 362 and 365.

Bossuet's funeral orations in particular had lasting importance and were translated early into a variety of languages, including English.

Of the 60 orations in his name available in Roman times, 21 were transmitted by ancient and medieval scribes.

Another three orations were found in a single codex during a 1988 excavation at Kellis, a site in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt.

His poems and orations were published after his death.

His orations at public meetings were more effective than those delivered in the Assembly, especially the one at Bordeaux.

Of the seven Verrine orations, only two were delivered ; the remaining five were compiled from the depositions of witnesses and published after Verres ' flight.

His orations were characterised as being soft, graceful, and elegant, rather than sublime like those of Demosthenes.

This is confirmed by the eighty orations of his which are still extant, and which were the only ones known in the time of Photius.

In antiquity there were 64 orations which bore the name of Isaeus, but only fifty were recognised as genuine by the ancient critics.

Ten of these orations had been known ever since the revival of letters in the Renaissance, and were printed in the collections of Greek orators ; but the eleventh, On Menecles ' legacy (), was first published in 1785 from a Florentine manuscript by Tyrwhitt, and later by Orelli in 1814.

Although his orations were placed fifth in the Alexandrian canon, still we do not hear of any of the grammarians having written commentaries on him, except Didymus of Alexandria.

In 357 he recited in the senate of Constantinople two orations in honour of Constantius, which were intended to have been delivered before the emperor himself, who was then at Rome.

The orations of Themistius, extant in the time of Photius ( 9th century ), were thirty-six in number.

His short orations when presenting were models of grace and skill.

Meanwhile, Eells was delivering noteworthy speeches and orations, especially to meetings of religious and philanthropic organizations, many of which were subsequently reprinted and preserved.

His appearances in the pulpit or in the Sheldonian theatre at Oxford were always welcomed by the graduates of the university ; his Latin sermons at St. Mary's or his orations at commemoration, graced as they were by a fine rich voice, enjoyed great popularity.

He could produce carefully constructed orations, set and formal speeches, artfully and prayerfully made by writing and rewriting with all the aid his tutor and others could provide, and then delivered verbatim from memory.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

As her triumphal progress wound through the city on the eve of the coronation ceremony, she was welcomed wholeheartedly by the citizens and greeted by orations and pageants, most with a strong Protestant flavour.

Funeral orations, such as the famous speech put into the mouth of Pericles by Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics.

Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others.

The declamations, which are in many cases accompanied by explanatory commentaries, chiefly consist of panegyrics, funeral orations and the stock themes of the rhetorical schools.

Quintilian speaks of three orations by Sulpicius as still in existence ; one of these was the speech against Murena, another Pro or Contra Aufidium, of whom nothing is known.

One is the pidato adat ( ceremonial orations ) which are performed by panghulu ( clan chiefs ) at formal occasions such as weddings, funerals, adoption ceremonies, and panghulu inaugurations.

The sermons of Fléchier increased his reputation, which was afterwards raised to the highest pitch by his funeral orations.

Detailed examination of Agrippa's minor orations and the De vanitate by a Neo-Latin philologist.

Arif capitalised upon his newfound position by partaking in a series of widely publicised public orations, during which he strongly advocated union with the UAR, making numerous positive references to Nasser, while remain noticeably less full of praise for Qasim.

It occurs where heroic characters use general semantics to struggle against the rousing orations used as an incremental tactic by the minions of authoritarian entities.

They include four orations on Kingship addressed to Trajan on the virtues of a sovereign ; four on the character of Diogenes of Sinope, on the troubles to which men expose themselves by deserting the path of Nature, and on the difficulties which a sovereign has to encounter ; essays on slavery and freedom ; on the means of attaining eminence as an orator ; political discourses addressed to various towns which he sometimes praises and sometimes blames, but always with moderation and wisdom ; on subjects of ethics and practical philosophy, which he treats in a popular and attractive manner ; and lastly, orations on mythical subjects and show-speeches.

* The Emperor Tacitus is acclaimed by the Senate, meeting in the ' Curia Pompiliana ' ( no such building ) and after orations by the consul ' Velius Cornificius Gordianus ' ( no such person ) and ' Maecius Faltonius Nicomachus ' ( ditto: most of the ' Maecii ' in the HA are invented ), he goes to the Campus Martius and is presented to the troops by the Prefect of the City ' Aelius Cesettianus ' ( no such person ) and the Praetorian Prefect ' Moesius Gallicanus ' ( ditto: the HA has several invented ' Gallicani ').

Although excluded by a majority of the House of Commons from the list of the managers of that impeachment, Francis was nonetheless its most energetic promoter, supplying his friends Edmund Burke and Richard Sheridan with all the materials for their eloquent orations and burning invectives.

By 400, Rufinius began translating his orations into Latin.

In 1609 he printed a first edition of his Latin orations.

It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery ; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church — to which Erasmus was ever faithful — and the folly of pedants ( including Erasmus himself ).

His Opera posthuma Latina, including his will, his Latin poems, and his orations while public orator, with memoirs of his life, appeared in 1717.

At Princeton, this speaker is known as the " Latin salutatorian "; at Harvard the Latin oration, though not called a " salutatory " address as such, occurs first among the three student orations, and fulfills the traditional function of salutation.

( 1 ) However, Goffe began delivering Latin orations and writing poems in tribute to Sir Thomas Bodley and Queen Anne of Denmark as well as to the dean of Christ Church, William Godwin.

His precocity was extraordinary ; at three years of age he was able to read, and in his thirteenth year he composed Greek and Latin orations and delivered them in public.

His literary life is generally divided into three periods: ( 1 ) Period of Latin poems ( 1509 – 16 ); ( 2 ) period of letters and orations ( 1515-17 ); ( 3 ) period of dialogues and letters in Latin and German ( 1517 – 23 ).

Adriani also composed funeral orations in Latin on the emperor Charles V and other noble personages, and was the author of a long letter on ancient painters and sculptors prefixed to the third volume of Vasari.

Progymnasmata ( Greek " fore-exercises ", Latin praeexercitamina ) are rhetorical exercises gradually leading the student to familiarity with the elements of rhetoric, in preparation for their own practice speeches ( gymnasmata, " exercises ") and ultimately their own orations.

Of Alcionio's numerous translations of Greek classics into Latin, which included the orations of Isocrates and Demosthenes mentioned by Ambrogio Leoni, only his Aristotle has survived ( Simon Finch ).