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He calls himself an Apostle that is, one sent to declare a message; therefore it is correctly rendered in Dutch, a messenger, or a twelfth-messenger, because they were twelve. But its peculiar meaning is, one who bears a message by word of mouth; not one who carries letters, but a capable man who presents a matter orally, and advocates it, of the class that in the Latin are called Oratores.
-Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus, he may have often written at variance with police rules, and put dangerous questions, such as: -Cedo qui vestram rem publicam tantam amisistis tam cito? which he answered by an enumeration of political sins, such as: -Proveniebant oratores novi, stulti adulescentuli.
The next period shows us the culmination, the short bloom, and the sudden fall of national eloquence, when with the death of Cicero the "Latin tongue was silent," and as he himself says, clamatores not oratores were left to succeed him. Great literary activity of all kinds was, after the third Punic war, liable to continual interruption from political struggles or revolutions.
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