See Cicero, Second Oration against Verres. In the Epitome of Livy, xli we should read Voconius, instead of Voluminus. Sanxit . ne quis h?redem virginern neve mulierem faceret. -- Cicero, Second Oration against Verres, 107. Legem tulit, ne quis h?redem mulierem institueret -- Book xli. Second Oration against Verres. City of God, iii.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
SOCRATES: Of my own wit, most likely nothing; but yesterday I heard Aspasia composing a funeral oration about these very dead. For she had been told, as you were saying, that the Athenians were going to choose a speaker, and she repeated to me the sort of speech which he should deliver, partly improvising and partly from previous thought, putting together fragments of the funeral oration which Pericles spoke, but which, as I believe, she composed.英文原著 · 《Menexenus》
10, art. See Aristotle's Politics, ii. Ibid, iv. See the oration of Demosthenes, De Falsa legat., and the oration against Timarchus. They used even to draw two tickets for each place, one which gave the place, and the other which named the person who was to succeed, in case the first was rejected. De Leg., i, iii. They were called leges tabulares; two tablets were presented to each citizen, the first marked with an A, for Antique, or I forbid it; and the other with an U and an R, for Uti rogas, or Be it as you desire. At Athens the people used to lift up their hands.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
And {8} even historiographers, although their lips sound of things done, and verity be written in their foreheads, have been glad to borrow both fashion and, perchance, weight of the poets; so Herodotus entitled the books of his history by the names of the Nine Muses; and both he, and all the rest that followed him, either stole or usurped, of poetry, their passionate describing of passions, the many particularities of battles which no man could affirm; or, if that be denied me, long orations, put in the months of great kings and captains, which it is certain they never pronounced.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
"Du Bruel looked at me triumphantly, not a vestige of a recollection of his orations /contra Tullia/ in his mind.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
Being with many more invited to sup with the king, he was called upon when the cup came to him, to make an oration extempore in praise of the Macedonians; and he did it with such a flow of eloquence, that all who heard it rose from their seats to clap and applaud him, and threw their garland upon him; only Alexander told him out of Euripides,-英文原著 · 《ALEXANDER》