Excerpt from Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus
A Translation of the Dialogues De Oratore was published in 1762, by George Barnes, a Barrister of the Inner Temple. Mr. Barnes's version was made with great care, and, though less known than Guthrie's, was far superior to it. If he occasionally mistook the sense of his author, he seems to have been always diligent in seeking for it. He added some notes, of which those deemed worth preserving are distinguished by the letter B.
Barnes's translation is the groundwork of the present; but every page of it has been carefully corrected, and many pages re-written. The text to which it is made conformable is that of Orellius, which differs but little from Ellendt's, the more recent editor and illustrator of the work, from whom some notes have been borrowed.
No labour has been spared to produce a faithful and readable translation of a treatise which must always be interesting to the orator and the student.
The translation of Cicero's "Brutus; or, Remarks on Eminent Orators," is by E. Jones, (first published in 1776,) which has long had the well-deserved reputation of combining fidelity with elegance. It is therefore reprinted with but little variation.
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