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"Vulgus interdum," says Cicero, "non probandum oratorem probat, sed probat sine comparatione, cùm
And as for the Frate, whatever we may think of his saintliness, you judge his preaching too narrowly. The secret of oratory lies, not in saying new things, but in saying things with a certain power that moves the hearers without which, as old Filelfo has said, your speaker deserves to be called, `non oratorem, sed aratorem. And, according to that test, Fra Girolamo is a great orator."
Trin. 225 egomet me coquo et macero et defetigo; Verg. Aen. 7, 345 quam ... femineae ardentem curaeque iraeque coquebant; Quint. 12, 10, 77 sollititudo oratorem macerat et coquit. A. 375, g, 5; H. 580, III n. 2. PRAEMI: the genitive in ĭ-ī from nouns in ium only began to come into use at the end of the Republic. A. 40, b; G. 29, Rem. 1; H. 51, 5. H. p. 74, foot-note 2.
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