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The De Inventione is a handbook for orators that M. Tullius Cicero composed when he was still a young man. Quintillian tells us that Cicero considered the work rendered obsolete by his later writings.[1] Originally four books in all, only two have survived into modern times.

References

  1. ^ Unknown (Formerly attributed to Cicero). (1954). Rhetorica ad Herennium (H. Caplan, Trans.). Introduction. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
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