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expositions-1777	none	The Civic Education of Cicero’s Ideal Orator	2014	23	.pdf	application/pdf	11135	670	65	Likewise, in de Oratore, Crassus implies that contemporary orators lack the legal expertise of their ancestors: there are fewer who know the law and can effectively advise their fellow citizens and more whose ignorance threatens the welfare of others.56 Cicero thus posits a correlation between the decline of legal knowledge and the Republic’s increasing lawlessness. 3.2–10).22 Cicero sets his dialogue, a work of historical fiction, on the eve of this crisis.	cache/expositions-1777.pdf	txt/expositions-1777.txt