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Ciceronian

IPA(Pronunciation)

Adjective

rhetoric

Of or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises. / (rhetoric) Eloquent, resembling Cicero’s style. / (rhetoric) With effusive use of antithesis and long sentences.

Japanese Meaning

マルクス・トゥッリウス・キケロに関する、または彼の哲学的著作に表れる思想に関する / 修辞学的意味では、雄弁でキケロ風の文体に似た / 修辞学的意味では、対比法の多用や長文の使用が特徴の

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Her Ciceronian arguments transformed the debate into a model of eloquence and moral reasoning.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女のキケロ的な主張は、討論を雄弁さと道徳的思考の模範へと変えた。

Details

Sense（1）

Of or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises.

Sense（2）

(rhetoric) Eloquent, resembling Cicero’s style.

'But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?' / 'What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?' said the duchess; 'it is a word I never heard in all my life.' / 'Demosthenian eloquence,' said Don Quixote, 'means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world.'

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