... of rhetoric, in the De artificio dicendi he distinguished the various kinds of discourse and emphasised the features of rhetorical discourse, and in Dell oratore he dealt with the task of the orator and his arguments, in the scheme Quae potissimum in oratore requirantur he focused on the particular features...

...; in his defense speech as well Aeschines emphasized Philip's rhetorical knowledge in order to show the openness of the contest between the king and the ambassadors. Demosthenes, on the other hand, rejected the king's ability to speak. In so doing, he elevated his own role as the only orator capable...

... when he associated Demosthenes with virtuosity in the deployment of figures of thought in Orator. In that treatise, and to a lesser extent in Brutus, Cicero turns his readers towards the study of literature in their quest for the ideal orator, whereas in De oratore he had focused attention...