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Recorded in English c. 1374, with a meaning of "one who pleads or argues for a cause", from Anglo-French oratour, Old French orateur (14th century), Latin orator ("speaker"), from orare ("speak before a court or assembly; plead"), derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *or-("to pronounce a ritual formula").
Antonius disagrees with Crassus' definition of orator, because the last one claims that an orator should have a knowledge of all matters and disciplines. On the contrary, Antonius believes that an orator is a person, who is able to use graceful words to be listened to and proper arguments to generate persuasion in the ordinary court proceedings.
The French term now used in Canada is président (president, chairperson, or presiding officer); the term orateur, a calque (literal translation) of "speaker" and formerly the term used in France for the Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, was used until the early 1980s. [7]
The Orator, also known as L'Arringatore (), Aule Meteli or Aulus Metellus (), is an Etruscan bronze sculpture from the late second or the early first century BC. [1] Aulus Metellus was an Etruscan senator in the Roman republic, originally from Perugia or Cortona. [2]
L'Orateur du genre humain, ou Dépêches du Prussien Cloots au Prussien Herzberg (Paris, 1791) La République universelle ou adresse aux tyrannicides (1792). Adresse d'un Prussien à un Anglais (Paris, 1790), 52 p. Bases constitutionnelles de la République du genre humain (Paris, 1793), 48 p.
Lucius Licinius Crassus (140 – September 91 BC) was a Roman orator and statesman who was a Roman consul and censor and who is also one of the main speakers in Cicero's dramatic dialogue on the art of oratory De Oratore, [1] set just before Crassus' death in 91 BC.
A red arrow indicating the location of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln at Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, approximately three hours before Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, widely considered one of the most famous speeches in the American history [1] [2]
Quintilian cites many authors in the Institutio Oratoria before providing his own definition of rhetoric. [10] His rhetoric is chiefly defined by Cato the Elder's vir bonus, dicendi peritus, or "the good man skilled at speaking". [11] Later he states: "I should like the orator I am training to be a sort of Roman Wise Man". [12]