The latter's brother C. Licinius Crassus ( consul 168 BC ) produced the third line of Licinia Crassi of the period, the most famous of whom was L. Licinius Crassus the orator ( consul 95 BC ), the greatest Roman orator before Cicero and the latter's childhood hero and model.

A noted orator, he is remembered for his stubbornness and tenacity ( especially in his lengthy conflict with Julius Caesar ), as well as his immunity to bribes, his moral integrity, and his famous distaste for the ubiquitous corruption of the period.

Throughout this period Abd al-Qādir demonstrated political and military leadership, and acted as a capable administrator and a persuasive orator.

Fier is well known for its ancient city, known as " Apollonia ", where Cicero, the famous Roman orator had studied for a small period of time.

Cantalupo in Imperial Roman times housed a scattering of villas, one belonging to the Tullii, the family of the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, but in the Migrations period the inhabitants were protected by a walled castle at the high point of a rocky spur, which was in possession of the counts of Cuneo.

Demochares ( c. 355-275 BC ), nephew of Demosthenes, Athenian orator and statesman, was one of the few distinguished Athenians in the period of decline.

His discipline and foresight during the period would serve him well, leading him, in due course, to be described as Iran's most gifted orator in its modern parliamentary experience.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

In the tradition of classical Roman rhetoric, Vico sets out to educate the orator as the deliverer of the " oratio ", a speech having " ratio " or reason / order at its heart.

Dorey claimed that this cannot be believed, however, because an orator and a historian in Ancient Rome were not the same ; an orator ’ s job was “ to win his case ” and a historian ’ s was to tell “ the truth .” In the article, Dorey claimed that the prosecution ’ s aim was that “ even if Caelius were acquitted, there was the chance of his emerging so discredited as seriously to jeopardize his prospects of success in his renewed action against Bestia .” In order to do this, the prosecution charged him with two attempted murders.

In 1773, he delivered the annual Massacre Day oration, To Commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of May 1770, which marked him as an orator of high order.

And in order to communicate effectively, an orator must be able to assemble proper arguments that support his thesis.

The bulk of his early reputation, however, came not from his poetry or his music, but from his excellence as an orator.

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

Gladstone served as President of the Oxford Union debating society, where he developed a reputation as an orator, which followed him into the House of Commons.

Throughout Garfield's extended Congressional service after the Civil War, he fervently opposed the Greenback, and gained a reputation as a skilled orator.

Unpopular incumbent President Harry S. Truman decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois ; Stevenson had gained a reputation in Illinois as an intellectual and eloquent orator.

As an adolescent, his curiosity had been noticed by the orator Callistratus, who was then at the height of his reputation, having just won a case of considerable importance.

The Earps hired as defense counsel an experienced trial lawyer, Thomas Fitch, who had gained a reputation as the " silver-tongued orator the Pacific.

* Demetrius of Phaleron ( or Demetrius Phalereus ), Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher, who has become prominent at the court of Ptolemy I, enjoying a high reputation as an orator ( b. c. 350 BC )

Fox was to address the House of Commons some 254 times between 1768 and 1774 and rapidly gathered a reputation as a superb orator, but he had not yet developed the radical opinions for which he would become famous.

He began to practice as a lawyer at the parlement of Toulouse in 1770, and soon earned a reputation as an orator, while his fame as an essayist led to his election as a member of the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse in 1788.

This caused a sensation, and set the tone of a long and colorful parliamentary career in which he acquired a fearsome reputation as an orator.

After acquiring some reputation in Rome as a jurist and an orator, he began a military career.

His reputation as an orator of great force and lucidity of exposition and as a safe and honest statesman procured for him in 1896 the presidency of the Senate, and in February 1899 he was chosen president of the republic in succession to Félix Faure by 483 votes as against 279 recorded by Jules Méline, his only serious competitor.

Benjamin quickly gained a reputation as a great orator.

The 1910 election introduced Harrison as a skilled orator and witty debater, a reputation he maintained throughout his political career.

Lowe retired into what Bright called the " Cave of Adullam ", and with other Liberals and Whig peers ( known collectively as the ' Adullamites ' ) opposed the bill in a series of brilliant speeches, which raised his reputation as an orator to its highest point and helped to cause government's downfall.

He spoke little more than five minutes: but every word was full of weighty matter ; and when he sate down his reputation as an orator and a constitutional lawyer was established ".

This marked the beginning of his reputation as a formidable orator.

The prosecution of Christopher Layer for treason as a Jacobite raised Yorke's reputation as a forensic orator ; and in 1723, having already become attorney-general, he passed through the House of Commons the bill of pains and penalties against Francis Atterbury.

Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator ; Speaker Onslow going so far as to say that " Harcourt had the greatest skill and power of speech of any man I ever knew in a public assembly.

Already his reputation as a speaker had spread beyond New England, and he was much sought after as an orator for public occasions.

He became a leading member of the opposition, with a reputation even among his opponents as a great orator.

He was educated at the College of the Immaculate Conception in Athlone, and Queen's College Galway, where he won scholarships in history and modern languages and built up a reputation as an orator, serving as auditor of the college's Literary and Debating Society.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave.

Arguably the most prominent anti-federalist, the powerful orator Patrick Henry was a delegate and had a following second only to Washington ( who was not a delegate ).

In the Virginia ratifying convention, Madison, who was a terrible public speaker, had to go up against Henry, who was the finest orator in the country.

He was the homonymous and thus presumably the eldest son of Marcus Antonius Creticus ( praetor 74 BC, proconsul 73 – 71 BC ) and grandson of the noted orator Marcus Antonius ( consul 99 BC, censor 97 – 6 BC ) who had been murdered during the Marian Terror of the winter of 87 – 6 BC.

Thus, in giving a speech in defense of a poet whose Roman citizenship had been questioned, the orator should examine not only the specifics of that poet's civic status, he should also examine the role and value of poetry and of literature more generally in Roman culture and political life.

The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.

Known as an orator even then, Bryan had not always favored free silver out of conviction, stating in 1892 that he was for it because the people of Nebraska were for it.

To sum up: Without being a great dogmatician like his master, nor a creative genius in the ecclesiastical realm, Beza had qualities which made him famous as humanist, exegete, orator, and leader in religious and political affairs, and qualified him to be the guide of the Calvinists in all Europe.

While Garfield had by then established himself as a superb orator while managing legislation on the floor of the House, he demonstrated little feel for the mood of the members or ability to control debate on items he brought forward.

The magnificence of the ancient city, and the taste of its citizens for the encouragement of art, are attested by Cicero, who calls it in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum ; and some evidence of it remained, even in the days of that orator, in the statues preserved by the Thermitani, to whom they had been restored by Scipio, after the conquest of Carthage.

The orator Andocides alleges that Alcibiades had a child by one of these enslaved women.

Upon the death of the popular French orator and statesman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau on 2 April 1791, the National Constituent Assembly, whose president had been Mirabeau, ordered that the building be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen, retaining Quatremère de Quincy to oversee the project.

Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.

" Once, at a house party where Lord Hardinge, a great soldier of the day, was in the room next to the Disraelis, Mary Anne announced at breakfast that she had slept the night before between the greatest soldier ( Hardinge ) and the greatest orator ( Disraeli ) of their times, and Lady Hardinge was definitely not amused.

The Roman orator Cicero called him " the first man of Greece ", and Montaigne judged him one of the three " worthiest and most excellent men " that had ever lived, but Epaminondas has fallen into relative obscurity in modern times.

Though Joyce had been deputy leader of the party from 1933 and an effective fighter and orator, Mosley snubbed him in his autobiography and later denounced him as a traitor because of his wartime activities.

Fronto sent Marcus a selection of reading material, including Cicero's pro lege Manilia, in which the orator had argued in favor of Pompey taking supreme command in the Mithridatic War.