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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Since Klingner's dissertation it has generally been accepted by Ciceronian scholars that Molon's influence upon Cicero's prose style consisted in his imparting to his pupil no new stylistic ideal but rather moderation in both language and style. According to Cicero (Brutus 325), Molon's style had developed under the teaching of Menecles of Alabanda who, though himself an Asianist, aimed rather at crebrae venustaeque sententiae, a more elegant and concise form of antithesis, parallelism, and stylistic balance.
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page 303 note 3 Landgraf, G., De Ciceronis Elocutions in orationibus pro Quinctio et pro Sex. Roscio Amerino conspicua, Würzburg, 1878.Google Scholar
page 303 note 4 Cf. my paper on ‘Phrasal Abundantia in Cicero's speeches’, C.Q. N.s. xviii (1968), 142 ff.Google Scholar
page 309 note 1 I am assuming that licentia and redundantia are largely, if not entirely, synonymous.
