expressimus

Updated: May 2, 2025

Gorgias, it is said, was the first Orator who practised this species of concinnity. The following passage in my Defence of Milo is an example. "Est enim, Judices, haec non scripta, fed nata Lex; quam non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex Natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus; ad quam non docti, sed facti; non instituti, sed imbuti simus."

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.