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De Inventione is a handbook for orators that Cicero composed when he was still a young man. Quintilian tells us that Cicero considered the work rendered obsolete by his later writings. Originally four books in all, only two have survived into modern times.
Cicero's De Inventione, Book I, translated by C. D. Yonge, at Peitho's Web. This treatise originally consisted of four books, of which only two have come down to us.
Cicero De Inventione Notes. Every subject which contains in itself a controversy to be resolved by speech and debate involves a question about a fact, or about a definition, or about the nature of an act, or about. . . the processes of deciding it. --Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Invention.
Rhetorici libri duo qui vocantur de inventione. M. Tullius Cicero. Eduard Stroebel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1915. Keyboarding. The Mellon Foundation provided support for entering this text. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License .
M. TVLLI CICERONIS DE INVENTIONE. Liber Primus. Liber Secundus. Cicero The Latin Library The Classics Page.
De Inventione, I. greatest talent left a life of strife and tumult for some quiet pursuit, as sailors seek refuge in port from a raging storm.
De Inventione, I. Marcus Tullius Cicero Two Books on Rhetoric Commonly Called on Invention. Book I. 1. I. I have often seriously debated with myself whether men and communities have received more good or evil from oratory and a consuming devotion to eloquence.
