The Legal Style? D.A. Russell’s An Anthology of Latin Prose includes as its fifth selection a passage from Book 4 of the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, in which we
Cicero’Reilly? Here’s a stunning example of praeteritio from what passes for an orator in the cable news age: it’s Bill O’Reilly on playing the tape of Jesse Jackson Continue Reading →
A Nice Use of Irony This morning on the local radio station I heard a nice use of irony (first definition). Someone had requested Bob Seger, and the DJ said, ‘I almost ne Continue Reading →
